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Posted by Bartt Shelton on March 17, 2007, 11:15 am
Please log in for more thread options > I use 2005 and have found the same problem. The workaround seems to
> be to use the Category Detail window to get your revised Living
> Expense amount. Then enter the revised amount as the Rough Estimate.
> Then each time you use the Planner the Rough Estimate remains.
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> Think about it. If the Planner used the category Detail every time,
> then each calculation would be different because you spent something.
> Notice that Quicken doesn't use your actual investment return but
> forces you to make the estimates, same concept. Planning is an
> estimating process and the quickest way to go nuts is to have inputs
> moving every time. It would have been nice if Quicken made the
> concept clear.
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> > I am using the Quicken 2007 R4 Retirement Planner. I open the Living
> > Expenses Category Detail window and deselect unwanted categories and change
> > some of the monthly amounts. After exiting the window, the correct new
> > total for expenses is shown in the program. However, when I later go back
> > to the Category Detail window, all the accounts and monthly amounts have
> > been reset to the original state. I have to redo all the changes or the
> > original total will be used in the program after closing the window. Does
> > anyone know if there is a fix for this?- Hide quoted text -
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This has been a gripe since at least Quicken 2002.
It allows you to specify the months you want to use, so unless you're
using a current month in your estimates, you'd hope it would be fairly
stable.
Maybe someday they'll fix it.
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