How to get Bills and Budget to synch?

I have Money '07 and I'm using it to try to set up a budget. Problem is,
it's a little cumbersome to have to go in and retype each category and amount
for things such as rent, gas, cell phone charges, etc. when all of that
information is currently in the Bills section. Is there a way to get the
budget to grab all of those non-variable values and use them so the only
thing I have to manually budget is what's left over?

Also, it doesn't seem like the cash flow forecaster (not sure if that's what
it's called) is considering my budget items - only the items under "Bills".

How do I get these 3 elements of MS Money to work together? I seem to
rememeber my Money '02ish doing this without a hitch.

Thanks in advance!

Dick
Sat Nov 10 11:24:55 PST 2007

There are three distinct budget models in M07. How about starting off by
telling us which of the three you are trying to use.

"Need Money Help" <Need Money Help@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:8FB20B17-EBFB-47E7-ABCF-46A0A6CE933E@microsoft.com...
>I have Money '07 and I'm using it to try to set up a budget. Problem is,
> it's a little cumbersome to have to go in and retype each category and
> amount
> for things such as rent, gas, cell phone charges, etc. when all of that
> information is currently in the Bills section. Is there a way to get the
> budget to grab all of those non-variable values and use them so the only
> thing I have to manually budget is what's left over?
>
> Also, it doesn't seem like the cash flow forecaster (not sure if that's
> what
> it's called) is considering my budget items - only the items under
> "Bills".
>
> How do I get these 3 elements of MS Money to work together? I seem to
> rememeber my Money '02ish doing this without a hitch.
>
> Thanks in advance!

NeedMoneyHelp
Sat Nov 10 11:38:00 PST 2007

I've tried it with both and had the same problem, but I think I'm going to
end up using the essential budget since it looks about the same of what I
remember back when I used Money years ago.

The 3rd budget setting wouldn't happen to be "Advanced", would it? I
noticed in my Cash Flow settings that there's a radio button greyed out that
references it (I assume since I'm not using it?), but I couldn't find
anywhere in the budget settings to select it.

Thanks!

"Dick Watson" wrote:

> There are three distinct budget models in M07. How about starting off by
> telling us which of the three you are trying to use.
>
> "Need Money Help" <Need Money Help@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:8FB20B17-EBFB-47E7-ABCF-46A0A6CE933E@microsoft.com...
> >I have Money '07 and I'm using it to try to set up a budget. Problem is,
> > it's a little cumbersome to have to go in and retype each category and
> > amount
> > for things such as rent, gas, cell phone charges, etc. when all of that
> > information is currently in the Bills section. Is there a way to get the
> > budget to grab all of those non-variable values and use them so the only
> > thing I have to manually budget is what's left over?
> >
> > Also, it doesn't seem like the cash flow forecaster (not sure if that's
> > what
> > it's called) is considering my budget items - only the items under
> > "Bills".
> >
> > How do I get these 3 elements of MS Money to work together? I seem to
> > rememeber my Money '02ish doing this without a hitch.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
>

NeedMoneyHelp
Sat Nov 10 11:48:01 PST 2007

Hey wow, thanks, your question actually led me to my own answer. I looked up
advanced budget and found a thread that explained how to make one (talk about
a pain - why on EARTH would MS make it so hard to do it? I had to type
money://navigate/newadvbgt into the navbar?) and it took care of both of my
problems.

Thanks a ton!

"Need Money Help" wrote:

> I've tried it with both and had the same problem, but I think I'm going to
> end up using the essential budget since it looks about the same of what I
> remember back when I used Money years ago.
>
> The 3rd budget setting wouldn't happen to be "Advanced", would it? I
> noticed in my Cash Flow settings that there's a radio button greyed out that
> references it (I assume since I'm not using it?), but I couldn't find
> anywhere in the budget settings to select it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> "Dick Watson" wrote:
>
> > There are three distinct budget models in M07. How about starting off by
> > telling us which of the three you are trying to use.
> >
> > "Need Money Help" <Need Money Help@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:8FB20B17-EBFB-47E7-ABCF-46A0A6CE933E@microsoft.com...
> > >I have Money '07 and I'm using it to try to set up a budget. Problem is,
> > > it's a little cumbersome to have to go in and retype each category and
> > > amount
> > > for things such as rent, gas, cell phone charges, etc. when all of that
> > > information is currently in the Bills section. Is there a way to get the
> > > budget to grab all of those non-variable values and use them so the only
> > > thing I have to manually budget is what's left over?
> > >
> > > Also, it doesn't seem like the cash flow forecaster (not sure if that's
> > > what
> > > it's called) is considering my budget items - only the items under
> > > "Bills".
> > >
> > > How do I get these 3 elements of MS Money to work together? I seem to
> > > rememeber my Money '02ish doing this without a hitch.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >