I'm just making an educated guess, but it would seem that
you are experiencing a very similar problem to one that I
encountered. Deleting or selling an investment, even in a
tracking account, does not remove history, so when you
attempt to purchase the same stock you deleted, the
program reads your files and finds the stock ID and
history. It's a pain in the.....but I have not been able
to get MICROSOFT to respond.
Don

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Brilliant!

That did it. Thanks!

I will pass on your solution to the MS support tech who is currently
struggling to address this problem :-)

-Seth



"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
news:99bpuvs5cgk1b9qt18eka9d39pvhm8d0fm[at]4ax.com...
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In microsoft.public.money, se wrote:

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Create a dividend for "ABC Fund Class A". This will let you undelete
it. Go the investment details for "ABC Fund Class A", and blank the
symbol. Check that there are no remaining transactions for "ABC Fund
Class A" by clicking "Investment Activities" from the Details page.
Delete the fake dividend and any other transactions there. Now you
can delete "ABC Fund Class A".

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:05:38 GMT, "se" <seth_news[at]setheliot-dot.com> wrote:

Try the following:


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BEFORE you delete the "ABC Fund Class A" investment, change the symbol to
something you will never use (e.g. zzzz1).


--ron

I cannot set the symbol for one of my investments. I suspect it is because
this symbol was used for a deleted investment.



I has a mutual fund investment in my portfolio, say it was called:

"ABC Fund Class A"

Whenever I download transactions from my broker, it always complained that I
had 100 shares of "ABC Fund Cls A" (note the subtle name difference) and
that this was not reflected in my account.

So I let it update my account. Now I had

100 shares of "ABC Fund Class A", symbol ABC which I had purchased

100 shares of "ABC Fund Cls A", (no symbol) which the system had "added
shares" for.



So I delete all my "ABC Fund Class A" transactions and delete the ""ABC Fund
Class A" investment. I then update my "ABC Fund Cls A" transactions to
reflect my actual purchases. This was all fine.

The problem is when I try to set the symbol for "ABC Fund Cls A" to ABC - it
won't let me. I type the symbol on the investment details screen and click
done, but it does not take. I can set the symbol to other things, but I
can't set it to ABC. Even though I have deleted "ABC Fund Class A", it
seems it still won't let me use the ABC symbol.



Details of error:

Go to Investments > > Portfolio

Right click on Investment > > See Details

Change the symbol. Move focus to another field - verify that symbol remains
changed

Click Done. Returns to portfolio view and symbol has NOT changed. No error
message is given.



Note that I recently upgraded from Money 2000. In Money 2000 I seem to
recall attempting something similar and I remember getting an error message
to the effect that I could not re-use the symbol from a deleted investment.
I get not such error in Money 2004. Either way I should be able to re-use
the symbol from a deleted investment.