Larry,This is way too complex for MT which is not meant to handle such tasks. What you do with 19 accounts I do with 3.
I've been using MT for over 3 years and know how to use its features. What you do in MT can be done in Excel and much more efficiently. So whats one more program? You use a program for what its meant to be used. MT is a check register that takes you a step further but its not a spreadsheet. If we wanted an all in one program that did everything, we would need some Super Crays to handle the tasks.
I have wanted MT to have budget capabilitiee. Now I have Excel and MT is fine as is.
You can set MT up to put Jaws to sleep and use MT's self voicing option. That will do what you need.
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To: <moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:40 PM Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURES
Hello Robert Ok I have account set up for Gas, Electricity, Water and various credit cards so for example my Water account when I get the bill in I enter ithere, then set up a transfer from my main bank account to transfer a paymentto Water every month. Then I can look at my Water account and see how much is outstanding. I don't want to use 2 programs when the one will do the job!You can export Money Talks files to Excel using Export and then choose CSV.HTH Larry & Elliot GD (Guide Dog) -----Original Message----- From: moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert C Sent: 26 April 2010 23:50 To: moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURES Just curious about the 19 accounts. You mentioned utilities so thequestion is, are you using MT to track data from ALL your expenses? Why notExcel for that? For MT to do that would be duplicating efforts and Excel isalready quite good at it. MT was not designed to be quite so robust. If you wanted MT to work as a budget, well you have Excel. Maybe I am not understanding the goals you have in mind. I have beenusing MT for bit over 3 years and find it does just what is needed except itlacks a way to create budgets but I now have Excel so no need. That said, it would be cool to have a way to export this data to Excel. Quote of the nanosecond. . . "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." --Johnny Carson Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- rclark0276@xxxxxxxxxxx Home Page- http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/----- Original Message ----- From: "LaMcAs" <lamcas17@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:54 PM Subject: [moneytalks] GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURESHello fellow MT users Ok first a gripe - why is it that APH know they are dealing with vision impaired people but still send a printed invoice on which the serial number is shown. Not even a brailed note giving the serial number, and course of nature would be to email those details to the client. When I placed my order I asked for this information to be emailed to me, and was promised this would happen, yet nothing. So now if someone needs to find their serial number they have to email Customer services to gain this information Ok gripe over! I have used two programs thus far to deal with this sort of information, being Money Matters, which is quite good but does not have any import/export features and the other being Microsoft Money, which has no accessibility features at all! So I was glad when I found Money Talks and think it is well worth it's money for what it does. I was however able to print off my Money Matters accounts and then use OCR to scan them in to Excel and MT accepts QIF files so imported those in to MT and then exported them as csv's and carried out all the changes I need to make. Ok and yeah I probably have more transactions than a lot of you, I have all my bank and credit card, utilities etc from 1992 - my money tells me where I've been! lol I think the following features would be a great help to us Money Talks users and wondered what thoughts you had? (And APH of course!) ABILITY TO HAVE AN OPENING SCREEN SHOWING ALL ACCOUNTS AND CURRENT BALANCES Otherwise for transactions to be transferred to another account that account has also to be opened! In my case having to open 19 accounts ABILITY TO HAVE A SCREEN FOR REGULAR PAYMENTSIt's hard work trying to remember you have to make , lets say 3 entries ona credit card account - one for the purchase/debit, you might get charged one amount for cash withdrawn interest, and another for purchase interest.Whereas having one screen showing you all your regular transactions you donot have to go in to each account to ensure you have set it up. ABILITY TO HAVE A SCREEN FOR CATEGORIES AND WITHIN THIS SUBCATEGORIES Within this the ability to completely delete those categories you do notwant, they might be inapplicable in your country, ie IRA Contribution. And say for example I have a category called Insurance and then sub-categoriesfor such things as home, auto, travel, health and pet. ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO CUT, COPY AND PASTE TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT TRANSFERS - TRANSFERS DO NOT HAVE A CATEGORY AS THE CATEGORY WOULD HAPPEN IN THE ACCOUNT THE MONEY WAS TRANSFERRED TO/FROM, SO HAVE A CATEGORY FOR "TRANSFER FROM" AND ONE FOR " TRANSFER TO" AND THEN SUB-CATEGORIES WOULD INCLUDE ACCOUNT NAMESABILITY TO BE ABLE TO TRANSFER FROM & TRANSFER TO IN EACH ACCOUNT AND AUTOMARK IN OTHER ACCOUNT IF - MINUS) OR + (PLUS) However the AMOUNT can only be changed in the account in which the transfer is initiated, though all other details can be changed apart from category fields, which would contain Transfer To in the initial account and TransferFrom in the receiving account with the sub-category containing the accountname. POSSIBILITY TO BE ABLE TO ALT+TAB BETWEEN ACCOUNTS ABILITY TO HIGHLIGHT MORE THAN ONE TRANSACTION AND "TRANSFER" SELECTED TO OR FROM ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Well these are just my thoughts, but I really believe they would make things a lot simpler to organise in an already excellent product and surely it can only get better! HTH Larry & Elliot GD (Guide Dog)