unofficial microsoft.public.money FAQ and A
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Q) How do I get Money to print my name and address and the MICR information on my checks?
A) You don't. There are many sources for pre-printed checks that supply the format expected by Money. On this stock, Money will print payee, payee address, date, amount, memo, and accounting information on the stub. It will not print your name and address, the bank's name and address, or the MICR stripe across the bottom. There are also 3rd party solutions, including VersaCheck and IDAutomation Check Printing Software for printing the "pre-printed" information on blank check stock. (Thanks to Cal Learner for the link to IDAutomation.) Also, see the answer to "Back to the check stock question: Isn't it obvious that Money should print the MICR data?"
References:
IDAutomation
VersaCheck
Q) How do I get rid of all of these Monthly Reports? They must be why my file is so big.
A) You don't and they aren't. The list of reports is generated when you enter the Monthly Reports screen based on the first transaction date in your file. The reports are generated dynamically from your data. There is no evidence that the list of available Monthly Reports adds any size to Money data files. M05 reduces the list to a year--probably solely to avoid this question on the support lines--worse, they eliminated any possibility of looking at periods older than that. Not that the old reports were terribly useful, but it cost nothing to keep them and the Microsoft development team went out of their way to eliminate them. Go figure.
Q) When I print several sheets of checks the check numbers get reversed. Why?
A) Check the printer driver settings for a setting to reverse the page order. (For instance, for an Epson inkjet on WinXP, this is located at printer properties|General|Printing Preferences…|Layout|Page Order.) Many of the print drivers have this now so that pages coming out face up come out correctly collated by printing the last page first. Alternately, print one sheet or partial sheet of checks at a time.
Q) Why can't Money do a Print Preview? What can I do to get around this?
A) This seems like an obvious feature for the Money team to add, but they never have. The workaround a number of users use to save time and consumables is to use one of the many freeware/shareware PDF-generating printer drivers. Money prints to this "printer" just like to a real printer, but instead of printing, they create .PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) files that can be viewed with the Adobe (Acrobat) Reader. Search google.com for "PDF (freeware OR shareware)" for lots of possible tools.
Q) Why doesn't Money have something like the Reconciliation Report in Quicken?
A) Cal Learner pointed out an item in the MSKB that treats this.
References:
MSKB: 176329 "reconciliation report"
Please see this disclaimer if you are using Money 2005 or this comment if you are using Money 2006.
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