Solved my own problem. Unassigned Sub-categories. My Bad.

"Lorraine" wrote:

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Lorraine wrote:

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"Automobile - Unassigned" refers to transactions assigned to category
"Automobile", but not assigned to any subcategory, such as "Gasoline"
or "Maintenance". If you were using subcategories, you'd have one line
for each.

The "Automobile (In Bold)" is just a section heading. It will never
have numbers next to it.

The fact that the number is blue means that it's clickable. If you
click it, you will get a mini-report showing all the transactions that
make up that number. From there you can edit the transaction, then
return to the report. I find this very handy. I use it to find
transactions where I've forgotten to apply the subcategory.

I bet if you look at your list of categories, you'll find that
Automobile, Healthcare, Household, Insurance, and Petcare have
subcategories, but you're not using them. You can delete the
subcategories if you want, but I recommend you start using them. You'll
find them useful in a few years when you want to track something in a
more detailed fashion. It's easier to apply the subcategories to one
transaction at a time than to try to catch up on several years' worth
of them all at once.

--
Steve Bell
New Life Home Improvement
Arlington, TX

Maybe I shouldn't be trying to correct my microsoft money issues at 2 in the
morning.

Is it possible to have an unassigned expense category? My settings are
fine. I understand the concept of an unbalanced transaction and know how to
split a transaction. The transactions I'm dealing with aren't split. I was
just snooping in the account registry to see if that was the problem. I
understand now that the minute you hit the split button it unassigns the
amount (see my reference to 2 am above).

My concern is with the reports I'm generating. (I'm assuming if the
transactions weren't assigned to any particular category they wouldn't show
up on these reports in these reports at all)

Only Certain categories (Automobile, Healthcare, Household, Insurance and
Petcare) show up with indented sub-totals repeated in blue in my Income &
Expense report (which I don't want) and have "Unassigned" listed under the
category in the Transactions by Category report?

Example from Income & Expense Report:

Automobile (In Bold)
Automobile - Unassigned 89.45
Total Automobile 89.45 (In Blue)

Only the above mentioned 5 expense categories have this error.

All other income and expense items are listed in bold with the category
totals beside them.

I need MS Money for the reports - hope you can help me fix this!

I'm having trouble understanding your situation.

See inline below.

"Lorraine" <Lorraine[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Are you doing this in an Account Register or during the process of accepting
a downloaded transaction or in Bills?

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I don't find OK, just Enter when I mess with transactions in the Account
Register. That's one of the reasons I asked the last question.

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What assignment? I'm not clear what you were trying to do in the first
place. You had a transaction that totalled a certain amount example $10.00.
You were editing splits for that transaction. The sum of the splits left an
unassigned amount. You said that unassigned amount "will transfer the amount
to the sum of splits total." Are you saying that you had split entries
$5.00, $2.00, and $1.00 and an unassigned $2.00 and then the $2.00 went away
and the sum of the splits--hence the total transaction value--changed to
$8.00? That's what you wanted. But when you save the transaction it reverts
to the $10.00 with $2.00 unassigned? And you never see the message dialog
"The sum of the splits does not match the total transaction amount. Click OK
to adjust the splits?" And you never see the Adjust Split Amount dialog box
that offers the choices of "Return to the Split Transaction dialog box to
edit the splits", "Set the total transaction amount to $8.00", "Distribute
$2.00 proportionally between the split amounts", and "Leave $2.00 unassigned
(not recommended)"? And you don't see a Require a Category dialox box
telling you that It's best to assign categories to your transactions... Yes
No Help"?

Try deleting the $2.00 split line with nothing in the category field, then
clicking Done.

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"These items" -- what items? The $2 unassigned? This is the one that really
confused me. When I save a transaction that has unassigned split amounts, I
NEVER see this amount reported anywhere. It's just in a black hole. Here I'm
talking about a transaction where the transaction amount is, say $10 but the
total of the splits is $8. Money calls this "unassigned" but perhaps a much
better name would be "unbalanced split".

OTOH, are you saying your total of splits is $10 and the transaction total
is $10 and the split entries are the $5, $2, $1, each with a category
specified, and $2 with no category specified? Money calls this "unassigned"
but perhaps a much better name would be "null or empty category".

Please check the setting at Tools|Settings|Category Settings|Require a
category for each transaction. Set it if it isn't already set and then
repeat your sequence of events.

This is one of those rare cases where it's almost impossible to tell from
the description but it would probably be really obvious when watching you
what was going on. Hopefully we'll get there.

Expenses that I categorize show up as unassigned in the Transactions with
Multiple Categories screen. When I click on the amount it will transfer the
amount to the sum of splits total. I click done and then ok on the edit
transaction menu. But it doesn't save this assignment. When I bring up the
transaction again it does the same thing. These items show up with
sub-totals in my Income & Expense report (which I don't want) and have
"Unassigned" listed by the category in the Transactions by Category report.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?