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deal with some problems that Money has. Switching to Quicken certainly is NOT
going to solve their problem and most probably cause them additional time and
effort trying to learn a new system. Money does work for most of us because we
are able to THINK what we want to see and not just rely on the downloads to
give us correct results. JMHO. Steve

I haven't tried Quicken before but these problems are
really pushing me to do so (after 5 years using Money).
Beside the budget calculations issues, money is also
unable to work with my bank to download transactions,
even though the bank is listed in Money supported
institutions. Maybe you are right, I should look into
quicken. The question is: will I be able to transfer all
my accounts and transactions from money to quicken? or
should I start from zip in Quicken? This is the only
reason I haven't changed yet.



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I am having the same problem. I have recreated the budget
countless times and it is picking up deleted paycheck
transactions. I am seriously thinking of going back to
Quicken... I could make a starter budget in money and
drop it in excel, but then I have to maintain excel
somehow...so it may be worth it to go back to Quicken.


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I have the same problem, I have been up til 3:00 AM
figuring out how this could be. There doesn't seem to be
a way to reset the budget.


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I have the exact same problem...driving me crazy too.

-Matt
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Internet Update will get you all the fixes that exit. Though they
perennially claim "improved" budgeting features every year, it doesn't seem
to be a high priority.

"Jeff Brock" <thebrockstar[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:79575444-9425-46DC-87D7-0DA851532CFA[at]microsoft.com...
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I am having similar problems that is ruining my budget. Surely MS has a fix for this?!?!

I have a similar problem. I refinanced my house and I
can't get rid of the budgeted amount for the old payment.
It is driving me crazy too.


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Try editing your scheduled bill (paycheck) and change the next date to
01/01/1995. It will then show a bunch of overdue instances. Select to skip
all overdue instances. Go to budget and see if things have changed. That
has worked for me.

If you changed a scheduled bill, the budget retains the old and adds the new
change. There should be a way to reset the budget and calculate anew but
there isn't.

"Bryan Browe" <bryan_browe[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:01a501c3d0c7$ef1e3730$a601280a[at]phx.gbl...
Deleted transactions still show up in the "Budgeted"
column of the Budget Status view. For example, I set up my
paycheck with deposits into multiple accounts. In order to
test whether I set it up right, I would enter the check
into the register, then check each account. After checking
things out, I would go back and delete the transaction,
make the necessary changes, reset the date of the
transaction, and run it again. I did this multiple times
before I got the paycheck set up right. However, for
everytime I entered the paycheck into the register, the
budget added all these together under the "Budgeted"
column for each component of the paycheck (taxes, health
insurance, retirement, etc). It did remove the amount from
the "Actual" column. When I right click on gross pay for
example, and choose "edit", I can see all the deleted
transactions when I drop down the "A Bill in this
category" menu, however I can only edit the most recent
transaction. Anybody have any ideas? This is driving me
crazy.

I can fill your pain Bryan. I have the same problem with
phamtom paychecks in my budget planner. They are also
driving me crazy since the budget planner is then
useless. Not only the income budget calculations are
overestimated, but also items in the paycheck as medical
insurance fees and taxes. Microsoft assistance claims
that they are unable to replicate the problem. I am glad
to see your posting since this is prove that I am not
going crazy here. I sent them a copy of a file with the
problem. Hopefully they will come up with an appropriate
solution for both of us.

Santiago.

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Deleted transactions still show up in the "Budgeted"
column of the Budget Status view. For example, I set up my
paycheck with deposits into multiple accounts. In order to
test whether I set it up right, I would enter the check
into the register, then check each account. After checking
things out, I would go back and delete the transaction,
make the necessary changes, reset the date of the
transaction, and run it again. I did this multiple times
before I got the paycheck set up right. However, for
everytime I entered the paycheck into the register, the
budget added all these together under the "Budgeted"
column for each component of the paycheck (taxes, health
insurance, retirement, etc). It did remove the amount from
the "Actual" column. When I right click on gross pay for
example, and choose "edit", I can see all the deleted
transactions when I drop down the "A Bill in this
category" menu, however I can only edit the most recent
transaction. Anybody have any ideas? This is driving me
crazy.