"Bruce Dworkin" <bdworkin[at]adelphia.net> wrote in message news:<054d01c3b920$b9ce4160$a101280a[at]phx.gbl> ...
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I do appreciate the answer that was given to me - as it did help me
get it done faster than one at a time...yuck, but Bruce has a point.
Sometimes people just make mistakes and want to go back and look at
things again. That's what I did... I had made a mess of my
reconciliation of the last few months and couldn't tell what was right
anymore so I went back and started over until I found my problem.

Again...thanks though!

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skin a little.

You imply -- somewhat condescendingly, I though -- that if
a human and a computer differ over whether a transaction
ought to be marked as reconciled, the computer must be
right. I'll agree that computers virtually never "err,"
but please remember what that means: they do only what the
human programmers and users instruct them too.

I wanted to change the status of a batch of transactions
as well. After a data import, individual reconciled
transactions that involved transfers between accounts
appeared as multiple transactions in Money (one for each
account), only one of which was marked as reconciled.

A painfully easy thing to do, in theory. Ought to be the
default, in my opinion, the ability to highlight and do a
batch change on a simple fixed-length field across
multiple records. But I guess Microsoft is protecting me
from myself again. It won't even let me sort on that
field. So I "put my head down and worked."

(Computers shouldn't free people from repetitive, inane
tasks, they should just create more opportunity for them!)

After that, Money 2003 failed to finish the balancing
process -- a bug noted in numerous posts for years, but
for which I have not yet found an official Microsoft fix,
patch, workaround or even comment. If I could do a batch
status change, I'd try to "unreconcile" a month and try
again. So there's a second reason to do what you didn't
know why he would want to do.

Oh, I've tried other things. For two days. I've searched
the knowledge base, read posts, run SALV.EXE (level 1 and
2), gone back to the original data, re-imported a much
smaller subset, run scandisk, rooted for Paul Allen's
sports teams and replied to unhelpful, patronizing posts
on message boards. Next will be a re-install, a shower,
and another phone call to the lady interested in the
numbers that a functioning Money will allow me to
generate. After that, I'll dust off my green visor, ledger
paper and coal stove, and "put my head down and work."

In microsoft.public.money, Doug wrote:

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Ctrl+Shift+M will toggle the reconciled state of a transaction. The
cursor-down key. Alternate those two.
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Put your head down and start working. You should be able to do 200
in 10 minutes.

On the other hand, I don't know why you would want to do this. I am
not going to worry about that.

I would like to know if there is a way to unreconcile multiple rows in
Microsoft Money? I can do one at a time, but I need to do a large
number of them and don't want to do them one at a time.

I've tried to contact Microsoft directly about this but got passed to
the company that I bought my machine from, who passed me off to
another support number in their company - which tried to charge me for
asking this question.

Any info on this would be great!

Doug