FYI; I ended up using File, Repair Money File, and that
did the trick.

Wish I knew sooner.

Thanks!
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Statement beginning balance for balancing the account and account beginning
balance for Account Details are not the same thing. If you've never balanced
the account in Money before and your account beginning balance was not
baselined at a previous statement's ending balance, the statement beginning
balance between Money and the bank statement are not likely to agree,

<anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Brian wrote:

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This is not what you asked for, but it may be of interest:

If you wish to start fresh and declare an account balanced, you can
mark all entries balanced. Select to show only unreconciled
transactions. Sort by date, and go to the oldest transaction.
Hold down Cntl+Shift+M and let auto-repeat work thru the
transactions until none are left showing. Then balance making the
starting and ending balance match the known balance. Choose the
balance date to be the day after your last transaction. This is
not the normal procedure. It starts you with an amnesty for former
balancing.

Thereafter, follow the normal procedure. Look at the balancing
movie clip from your Money disk.

Is there a way to tell money you want to start over with
balancing and not use previous information? That is
probably the problem. I changed the beg. balance on
account setup a few times; maybe the balancer doesn't
know. Money saves your work when you "postpone." I need
to start the balancing process over.

Thanks again for your help with this! Bear with me and
we'll figure it out I've invested so much time
already, I really don't want to have to start the account
over!
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It's me again. The root problem is that Money claims the
beg. balance it calculated does not match the amount I
entered as beg. when I started the balance process.
(There is a screen where they ask for statement dates,
bank charges, interest, etc.). They claim that beg
balance is wrong, but I checked it against the balance I
gave in the setup and they match.

thanks again!
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I don't fully understand your issue, but I do know this: the goal is to 1)
make sure that the account balance before balancing matches between Money
and the statements beginning balance, 2) Mark all transactions in Money as
cleared that are reflected in your statement; assure that all transactions
cleared on your statement are marked as cleared in Money, 3) Determine that
the beginning balance plus the transactions you just cleared in Money add up
to the same amount as the statement ending balance. ANY intermediate number
matters not.

"Brian" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am having problems balancing my checking account in
Money.

This is the first time I have done it.

Basically my paper statement flows exactly to the
register balances in Money.

However, when I open up the balancing feature and start
going, the balancer has totally different balances after
each transaction (i.e. different from the register).

I triple checked that the account's beginning balance on
the account setup screen is exacly the same as the beg.
balance on the statement I'm trying to balance.

I tried deleting all of the transactions and
redownloading them from the bank website, but it didn't
do any good.

Before I delete the account and start from scratch, I
thought I'd stop and write a post here.

Any help is appreciated.

Also, what is the "statement date"? Is it the first or
last day covered on your statement? I figured the first
day, but I wasn't sure.

Thanks.