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Posted by John Pollard on December 24, 2007, 4:57 pm
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Stewart Berman wrote:
> I think you will find that copying and pasting transactions
> with
> splits between Quicken 2008 files only works well if the files
> are
> copies of each other.
>
> If you make a copy of your Quicken file, create a transaction
> with
> splits in one and copy and paste it into the other it will
> work.
>
> I suspect that is because Quicken does not actually copy the
> literal
> strings but a reference (key) to them. For example, if the
> key to the
> category "Gifts" is 3 in the first file and 3 is the key to
> "Gas" in
> the second file the category will show up as "Gas" in the
> second file.
>
> Try creating a brand new Quicken file with one checking
> account and
> pasting a transaction with splits from a checking account in
> your
> regular file into the new one. Some categories will be
> changed and
> others will be blank. The blank ones are were the keys don't
> exist in
> the new file.
Well, you're at least partially right. I do now see that Q2008
will not get the categories correct in a situation similar to
the one you describe above.
I do find it difficult to believe that Intuit would choose to do
it as you have postulated, but I also don't think they have a
great deal of interest in the overall process, so they're
probably not rushing to make it work.
> What is interesting is that Quicken does not even alert
> you to the missing keys.
> You can't export the transactions you want ot copy as a QIF
> file
> because Quicken won't let you import them into a checking
> account.
You definitely can import QIF files into checking accounts in
newer versions of Quicken ... with a little extra work. But for
the op, no extra work is involved since he's using Q2002.
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John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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