From: Mark 
Newsgroups: uk.finance microsoft.public.money
Subject: Re: Personal finance software advice?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:49 +0000

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:32:40 +1300, Neil Hampton
 wrote:

>I use Microsoft Money myself and find it excellent (and it is not 
>expensive).  Most banks let you download statements from their online 
>banking and these go straight into Money.
>
>I have been using it for several years to run a couple of club accounts 
>too and had no problems.
>
>I am using Money 2002, and have heard some horror storys from people 
>upgrading to Money 2005 but I suspect that starting from scratch is 
>probably ok.

I used to use Money 2003 and I found it useless.  It has so many bugs
that you have to spend so much time trying to find ways around them.

It always screws up your budget, regularly corrupts your data so you
have to start from scratch and randomly loses transactions.

My advice would be to use a pen and paper - it's much quicker.

Mark