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Regardless, that's a simple way to get around it. Thanks
for the help.

These things can be a mystery that Money just doesn't intend us to
understand. Karma and other strange paranormal phenomena can be involved.
Who's to say?

Try this. Go to the investment account and add a huge--bigger than all of
the Sells--Buy transaction for the investment in question (this may take
some doing to find out which investment is upsetting it) as the earliest
transaction. Do your transaction edits. Then come back and remove the wedge
buy. Do this in a copy of your data file, because you may have other issues
going on.

"E Baker" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am using Money 2003 and am having problem editing a
previously entered recurring paycheck sequence with an
after-tax pension deduction. My original configuration
had the after-tax deduction sent to a pension account
which I manually set up as an expense category. Upon
further review, I thought it be better to set it up a
separate account (like a bank account) similar to my
other bank/investment accounts. When I went to edit the
paycheck split to reallocate that after-tax deduction to
the newly formed pension account, it gave me an error
message stating that "the share balance of (other
account) would become negative at some point. Please
arrange your transaction to avoid this." This "other
account" is a 401K account where I send paycheck dollars
to pre-tax. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. All
I am changing is the account for post-tax allocation of a
recurring paycheck, not the dollar value. There are no
unallocated dollars. I do not see how this could alter a
totally separate account where I send money to pre-tax.
Thanks in advance.