> -----Original Message-----
> In microsoft.public.money, K. Georgiadis wrote:
> > > When I first started using Money 2002 14 months ago I
> > made the mistake of entering a guesstimate of a bank
> > balance so that I could learn how to balance the
> > checkbook. I'm stuck with the old balance and cannot
seem
> > to pick a new starting date and balance, so that I can
> > make a fresh start. Can I just forget about last year,
> > pick a legitimate recent bank statement and start the
> > reconciliation process from that date onwards?
> 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.
> .

> When I first started using Money 2002 14 months ago I
> made the mistake of entering a guesstimate of a bank
> balance so that I could learn how to balance the
> checkbook. I'm stuck with the old balance and cannot seem
> to pick a new starting date and balance, so that I can
> make a fresh start. Can I just forget about last year,
> pick a legitimate recent bank statement and start the
> reconciliation process from that date onwards?