I found out what's going on -- so that MS personnel can
answer this in the future and to prevent anyone having
headaches, here's the deal:

You can enter an expire transaction along with a vest but
as you exercise thos options, Money is keeping count of
the number of remaining options (which is a good thing,
of course). Then if you try to enter an Expire against
the original security that you granted, you can only
expire the number of remaining options at that point in
time. Not real obvious that this is going on. Money
should really come up with an error message that
says "You are trying to expire more options that you have
remaining on the transaction date."

This probably won't be a biggie except for people trying
to catch up by entering historical stock transactions
into Money (which I'm doing as a Quicken converter).

Hope this helps others.
Tony

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Yeah, I'm trying to reproduce the whole scenario in a new
file in case I can help MS debug this (being a developer
myself ;-)). Anyway, I've tried the repair file steps,
reinstalling, etc, etc. (the basics). It definitely
something the program thinks is illegal but I'm not sure
what. Could be some Money setting I have no clue about
since I'm a new user.

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I haven't any real idea, but have you tried changing the expire instead of
deleting it?

"Tony" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Ok, I've used Quicken since the dawn of time and recently
downloaded the Money trial. I created an Employee Stock
Option account and entered a grant for some shares.
Money created the Vest transactions and an Expire
transaction. I deleted the Expire transaction Money
created since each of my Vests expires individually and I
want to enter each Expire on a different date. Problem
is, I try to enter the Expire transaction and I get the
error listed above.

I thought maybe it was just a limitation of the Trial
version (number of transactions or something). So, I
went out a bought a copy of Money 2004 Deluxe and to my
great dismay, I get the same error! I was so hopeful
that MS could do better than Intuit... please help? ;-)

Frustrated after only a couple hours with Money...
Tony