Re: Money 2005 Budget/Debt Issue by Graham
Graham
Mon Jan 03 22:57:01 CST 2005
Try this:
1. Create a new category like your old one.
2. Create a dummy category that you will never use. For example:
"_DummyCategoryDoNotDelete".
3. Do a Tools->Find and Replace to move all your old categories to the new
one. A standard MOVE will not work, that will also move the duplicated
budget data.
4. Go to "Bills & Deposits" and make changes to your recurring bill's
category to the new one you created.
5. Go to "Categories" and delete your old category. It will ask what to do
with the transactions so select your dummy category. You cannot get rid of
the bad budget entries (MS a fix please off the Repair Level 2 option!) so
your dummy category will be a consolidation of all of thoes.
6. Go to "Categories" and rename your new category with your old category
name (unless you like the new one that is).
It's a terrible fix for recurring bills, but it works for the double entries
in the budget. What is probably happening is that the recurring bill stays
in the budget even when your delete the bill. They are hidden records, which
is why that dummy category is needed. I cleared out my entire budget this
way, unfortunatly if you like to keep a history of budgets then it will be
gone. The "sorting" method I stated is usually a good way to determine if
those hidden records exist. Now if your already made a payment for this
month then you will not have a budgeted value for this month, just keep that
in mind.
Graham
"No Name" wrote:
> I don't have multiple car payment bills in the Bills and Deposits section,
> but they're there in my budget every month in the debt section. The DRP is
> not causing this since the car loan account is not in the DRP. I do
> remember accidentally deleting the bill once when I upgraded to 2005 (when I
> had to get rid of all of the bills from the previous 10 years) and make a
> new instance of it. I think that's what's causing the issue, but I haven't
> found a way to eliminate it from the budget. As soon is I double click on
> one of the two, the screen refreshes and brings me back to the budget
> screen.
>
> Let me know if you figure anything out.
>
> -David
>
> "Graham" <Graham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0CB2E7C5-F00A-4360-8E75-EAD4C2845ED8@microsoft.com...
> >I feel your pain. I believe the DRP causes the same problems as automated
> > bills do, except that you cannot delete the budget entries for them. Your
> > debt section would of been okay if you didn't use the DRP, at least thats
> > what it looks like in my budget. At least it only showed up once (as a
> > special initial payment from the DRP) in my budget so when I get out of
> > this
> > month, the rest look good.
> >
> > Does your loan show every month doubled, or just a single month? If
> > multiple months, go to your bills section and sort by "due date" and then
> > by
> > "category" and if the number of bills is different you have to delete your
> > duplicates.
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
> > "No Name" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am having an issue with the Budget Planner. For some reason, my car
> >> loan
> >> payment is showing up twice under the debt section. I have seen
> >> solutions
> >> (make a temp category; find and replace; etc) for other items in the
> >> budget...specifically bills, but never for a debt payment which is a
> >> section
> >> you can't delete. I have an account called Car Loan and must have
> >> changed
> >> the terms at some point or another because it is deducted twice from the
> >> budget, even though it is only in Bills and Deposits once. Also, it has
> >> been removed from the DRP so its not coming from that.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated,
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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