Thanks so much, Cal. I use my cc's online account center
quite frequently to keep up w/ my balance, but -duh!-
never thought of downloading. I do my MS$ on a different
computer, but I could probably figure out how to download
on this one and then transfer to the bookkeeping one. I
guess I'm too slow to have figured out the "Transfer"
funciton for that purpose; thanks for boosting my learning
curve!

In microsoft.public.money, Confused wrote:

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Enter your purchase transactions into the register using your credit
card slips. Some credit cards let you download transactions
throughout the month. That is my preference.


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OK... So look at the You Owe balance at the bottom of the register

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Enter your payment as a transfer from checking to the credit card
account. The Category will be Transfer.

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I have read some of the posts after I Searched this topic,
but I am still too dense to understand how to do credit
cards. I have read how to do it in the Money Help, but
when I actually do it I always end up looking as if I owe
bazillions.

Here are the factors that complicate their simple
directions:
*I like to input my data each week, not monthly when I get
my statement. I think if I set it up correctly that I
could still do this, but durned if I know how.
*Each month I pay off my credit card, usually not just the
balance shown but however much I've accrued by the date
that I send off the check.
*I do use split transactions, but then when it comes time
to actually fork over the bucks, I seem to trhow it into a
panic b/c I don't know how to tell it that it's a credit
card payment as well as all those transactions.

Can somebody walk me step by step through the way in which
I should set this up to work for my peculiar habits?