In microsoft.public.money, Sgt wrote:

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To "delete an not necessary entry in the account", right-click and
choose Delete or Void. Choosing Void will remind you of what you
did, and it could be un-voided if you changed your mind on that. You
can later balance after doing that. The opening balance of
subsequent balancing processes would automatically change to reflect
that the previously balanced transaction is gone.



The balancing paradigm is that you receive a statement that covers
a period of time, or at least it covers a set of transactions not
covered by other statements. The transactions covered by previous
statements should have been marked as balanced before starting.
The net sum of the reconciled transactions should match the
starting balance.

You may have already marked transactions that have been recognized
by the statement issuer during the period of the statement as
cleared. Those transactions covered by the statement that have not
been marked as cleared should be will be marked as such during the
balancing process.

Electronically cleared transactions are marked with E during
downloads or imports. For Money, this has no distinction from a
blank C column for purposes of the balancing process.

An E item that is marked as Reconciled or Cleared and later marked
as unreconciled will return to its E status.

For Money, E (Electronically cleared) is not considered Cleared by
the Balancing process. During the balancing, you must still
left-click the Es to change them to Cs. As you do, the Difference
moves toward $0.00. Es in the statement period are automatically
changed to Cs.

If you wish to start fresh and declare an account balanced, you can
mark all entries balanced. Select to show only unreconciled
transactions. Sort by date, and go to the oldest transaction.
Hold down Cntl+Shift+M and let auto-repeat work thru the
transactions until none are left showing. Do not change the
starting date or starting balance. The starting balance is the sum
of the transactions that have already been marked as reconciled.
Then balance making the ending balance match the known balance.
Choose the balance date to be the day after your last transaction.
This is not the normal procedure. It starts you with an amnesty
for former balancing.

Thereafter, follow the normal procedure. Look at the balancing
movie clip from your Money disk.

During the normal procedure, you are presented with the list of
transactions that are not reconciled. In the left column will be
the starting, and ending balances you entered as you started
balancing. There will also be a difference amount. As you click
on the C column for a transaction reflected on the statement, that
space in the C column will change to a C. If you mark an
transaction cleared that has not actually been reflected on the
statement, you can click the C column again to toggle the cleared
status. The difference should move toward zero. As you continue,
you should eventually get the difference to zero. If you can not,
you can click next. Money will offer some choices.


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Cal I appreciate your time and effort, especially your patience with me.
I need to delete an not necessary entry in the account.
If I were to not reconcile as you suggested could I then balance the account
again.
Again thanks for knowledge and patience with me.
What is the easy way you mentioned."Cal Learner-- MVP"
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In microsoft.public.money, Sgt wrote:

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There is no easy way to mark everything as not reconciled. You would
have to select each such transaction in turn, hold down Ctrl+Shift
keys as you poke M. Then cursor-up or -down to move to the next
transaction that you want to mark as not-reconciled. The alternative
is to right-click the transactions with the mouse and choose
MarkAs-> Reconciled to change the status of each.

Is your balance on the register what it should be? There is an easy
way to mark it all as balanced and continue from there.





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By Start over I mean can I redo the balancing of the account on the desktop
machine. How can I clear the reconciled column and redo the balancing.
Thank you.
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In microsoft.public.money, Sgt wrote:

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Use that to do what?

If you prefer the Money file (which I think may be what you are
calling an account) that is on the laptop computer that is also
running Money 2002, copy the *.mny file over to the Documents folder
of your desktop machine, and open that file. You could use
File-> Open within Money to open the copy. If you give the copied
file a different name than what the current file is called, you
could switch back and forth between files until you are sure which
you will continue with.

Alternatively, you could file-> Restore from the USB drive. Don't
restore to the "default location". Instead Browse to your Documents
folder, and choose a new name.

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That indicates what you don't want to do. It is still not clear what
"start over" means to you.



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The reconciled account is on a desktop. I have the same account on a laptop
that has not been balanced, reconciled and backed up to a USB drive. Any way
I can use that.
Not possible to recreate the account, it goes back to 1996.
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In microsoft.public.money, Sgt wrote:

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Start all over? Do you mean to mark everything as not reconciled? No
easy way -- unless you had a suitable backup.

To mark everything reconciled and balanced for the account? There is
a fairly easy way to do that.

To get rid of the account and start over? You could delete the
account, and re-create it.

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Is there a way I can start all over after the account, ( checking) has been
reconciled.
Thank You.
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In microsoft.public.money, Sgt wrote:

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Chances are, if you add the missing interest and delete the unneeded
change, things will balance.

Note that when balancing, the starting balance is the sum of all
Reconciled transactions. During the balancing process, you should
normally avoid changing the starting balance. If you do change the
starting balance, Money will add a compensating transaction to make
up the difference.



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the latest 4 backups by default, and you can increase that number.
Money 2002 keeps one. You would have to change the name to keep
more.

Review your backup policy. Also consider what would happen if your
hard drive failed.

My account at first didn't balance because I forgot to enter an interest I
received, made a change I didn't need. I would like to rebalance but
deleting a change would mess up the account. I think restoring an account
prior to balancing is my only salvation.
Thank You.
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How can I restore a money 2002 file that I had before balancing the account
manually.Where would this file be.
Thank You.