In microsoft.public.money, George wrote:

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The dividend data will from your broker download and your other
broker File-> Import, and there is no way to turn that off without
stopping the downloads. Nor do I think you would want to.

I infer that dividends from BOTH brokers are getting duplicated,
which would imply that you are on the right track.

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You may find Linking preferable to Synchronization.

Synchronization

Instituted from Tools-> Access-> MyMoneyDataOnTheWeb. Allows access
of your money file from the web. This is useful if you want to
read and be able to change your money file from different
locations. Changes made on the web will modify your money file
when you connect to the internet.

Linking from MoneyCentral

This method does not put my data on a central server.
From MSN Money Portfolio, File-> Import (On my computer in Microsoft
Money). (Link) This allows you to select accounts that are read
from the linked Money file. Changes made in Money reflect into the
portfolio view, but changes done at the MoneyCentral Portfolio do
not affect the Money file. Other accounts, including watch
accounts, can be added to the MC Investor portfolio without
dirtying up the Money file.

Hello all,

I am a new user of Money 2004. I used Money 2002 but did not use the
portfolio management part of the software before. I have been using Money
2004 for about a month now and have been setting up all the linking features
(between Money, MoneyCentral and my brokerages accounts) offered for the
Portfolio Management capabilities available in Money.

I am using Money 2004, the Premium edition if that makes any difference and
Windows XP Home on a Pentium 3 computer. I just noticed today that there
are several duplicate transaction entries for many of my recent stock
dividends. One of my brokers, Schwab, provides an automatic link between my
accounts there and Money 2004 and I use that feature. If dividends are
generated they automatically show up in Money. Another of my brokers,
FOLIOfn, does not provide an automatic link capability so I have to import a
QIF file to move dividend data from the accounts at FOLIOfn to Money. I
perform this import once a week.

I have Money synchronized with my MoneyCentral portfolio and I suspect the
dividends are being imported from the MoneyCentral dividend database, but
the direction I have synchronization set for is Money2004 ---> the
MoneyCentral portfolio, so it is my understanding that my Money file could
not be receiving any dividend data from the MoneyCentral portfolio, only
vice versa. I know that MoneyCentral will automatically collect dividend
data for the stocks I own and, yes, I do have it set that way (to collect
the dividend data, that is) in my MoneyCentral portfolio. However, again,
since the direction is from Money to MoneyCentral during synchronization, I
do not see how the duplicate dividend data could get into my Money file. Now
that I think about that, I probably need to turn off the dividend update in
MoneyCentral anyway. I still have it set that way from before I recently
started using Money to do all my dividend data updating.

I have two questions:
Question 1: Is there a place within the options I can set in Money2004, that
I can designate that Money is to import dividend data to the Money file or
not to import it? If there is, I have yet to find such an option. If I
could find the option, I could turn it off and stop the duplicate dividends.
Actually, I like that the dividends automatically appear even though I don't
know how Money is getting them form the online database in MoneyCentral.
Actually, I would prefer using the automatic dividend feature, as apparently
such a feature does exist, but that causes a problem when I import my QIF
file from FOLIOfn or from Schwab since there is no way at the Folio Web Site
or the Schwab Web Site to tell the QIF download NOT to include the dividend
data, but to include all other transactions.

Question 2: How have any of you solved this problem, if, in fact, you have
it? Is it as simple as turning off a feature in Money 2004 or am I missing
something else?

I will certainly acknowledge any answers I get with a big "thank you" and to
let others know if the solution you provided works.

One final point, I have searched the Unofficial FAQ (
http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/ )for an answer to this problem before posting
here.

Thanks, George




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