Entering Categories

I'm a new user of Money. I loaded several months worth of
transactions into Money. I'm entering categories for the
transactions, but, I don't want to have to enter each and every single
one of hundreds of transactions. Shouldn't it the categories
automatically be applied to like named transactions. In other words,
if i enter a category of "Food - groceries" for a transaction for
Safeway, shouldn't all of the Safeway transactions pick up the same
category?

thanks for any help

Bonnie
Thu Apr 15 14:16:51 CDT 2004

If you had autocomplete on when you entered the transactions, it would fill
in the category when it recognized the payee as previously being assigned
that category. Since you've already entered them in, I would recommend
using Tools, Find and Replace to find all transactions for a specific payee,
then add the category.

"Greg" <ghvance@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:102c7417.0404150941.6b162d15@posting.google.com...
> I'm a new user of Money. I loaded several months worth of
> transactions into Money. I'm entering categories for the
> transactions, but, I don't want to have to enter each and every single
> one of hundreds of transactions. Shouldn't it the categories
> automatically be applied to like named transactions. In other words,
> if i enter a category of "Food - groceries" for a transaction for
> Safeway, shouldn't all of the Safeway transactions pick up the same
> category?
>
> thanks for any help

Glyn
Thu Apr 15 14:31:30 CDT 2004

You could use the tools->Find&Replace option to speed this up....

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"Greg" <ghvance@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:102c7417.0404150941.6b162d15@posting.google.com...
> I'm a new user of Money. I loaded several months worth of
> transactions into Money. I'm entering categories for the
> transactions, but, I don't want to have to enter each and every single
> one of hundreds of transactions. Shouldn't it the categories
> automatically be applied to like named transactions. In other words,
> if i enter a category of "Food - groceries" for a transaction for
> Safeway, shouldn't all of the Safeway transactions pick up the same
> category?
>
> thanks for any help