Money 3.0: Contents of the MSMONEY3.TXT File
  
PSS ID Number: Q114383
Article last modified on 02-04-1998
 
3.00
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Money version 3.0
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SUMMARY
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This article is the contents of the MSMONEY3.TXT text file.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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This file contains information about Microsoft Money version
3.0, including:
 
1. Installation Tips
 
2. What's New In Money 3
 
3. Tax Form Tables for US, Canada and Australia
 
4. Other Tips
 
5. Hardware Problems or Incompatibilities
 
6. What Files Money Sets Up on Your Computer
 
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1.- INSTALLATION TIPS
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Virus Checking Programs:
 
If you are using a virus checking program that remains resident in memory,
and you receive an alert from it while installing Money, ignore the
program's alert. Or, remove the virus- checking program from memory if it
is not possible to ignore the alert, restart your computer and run Setup
again.
 
Stacker:
 
If you are running the program Stacker, or if you are using DoubleSpace
with MS DOS version 6.0, Money Setup might get wrong information about the
available disk space available. If Setup is not completed successfully, you
will need to free more space on your hard disk and run Money Setup again.
 
If you are running hDC Virtual DeskTop version 1, Money Setup will install
all the Money files, but the Transaction Cue Cards and the Money Preview
will not operate correctly. From the hDC Power Launcher menu, choose Remove
in order to run the Money cue cards and previews.
 
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2.- WHAT'S NEW IN MONEY 3
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If you use Money version 1 or 2, you'll want to know about the
following new features of version 3:  (Page numbers refer to the
Money User's Guide, where you can find more information.)
 
* Track your investments - You will be able to keep track of your stocks,
bonds, mutual funds, and other investments such as your 401(K) plan. You
will also be able to update prices (manually or with Quotes On-Line), and
view reports about gains, net worth, and more. (Page 217)
 
* Financial Wizards - Money 3 has these new financial wizards to help you
with your finances:
 
  - Loan Calculator: understand the terms and costs of a
    loan, or compare two loans. (Page 214)
  - Mortgage Planner: compare two mortgages. (Page 216)
  - Savings Calculator: plan your savings toward a future
    goal. (Page 299)
  - Retirement Planner: make plans for retirement income.
    (Page 300)
  - Interest Estimator: estimate the interest you've earned
    on an account based on minimum daily balance. (Page 300)
 
* Pay On-Line allows you to pay bills from your computer to anyone,
anywhere in the United State, using a checking account at any bank in the
United States. (Page 272)
 
* Bank On-Line (participating banks only) allows you to bank from your home
or office. It downloads all bank or credit card records directly into your
Money records, and automatically categorizes your credit card transactions.
(Page 286)
 
* Quotes On-Line allows you to download into your Money records closing
prices of any stock or mutual fund traded in the major markets. (Page 238)
 
* Import all QIF account files from your Quicken records in just one step.
You won't need to import one QIF file at a time.
 
* Right mouse click report on payee in the Account Book; while editing a
transaction, click the right mouse button in the Payee field to bring up a
list of the latest transactions for that payee.
 
* Improved reports, including a register running balance report
 
* The Memo field can be 255 characters long (from a max of 32 in version 2)
 
* Scenic Check backgrounds will decorate your screen.
 
* Change the sound of your Money transaction beep if you have a sound
board. (See the Using Customized Sounds topic in online Help)
 
* Improved online Help. Money 3.0 uses Help 3.1, which has several
improvements over Help 3.0 such as Help On Top button, non-scrolling title,
glossary popup, etc. Help also has User's Guide cross-references for most
topics.
 
* Improved Loan Setup wizard, including support for Canadian mortgages.
 
* Tax Form Reports for Canada and Australia.
 
* Improved menu layout, and new Cascade command under the Window Menu.
 
* Improved Graphics - new illustrations in many dialog boxes.
 
* 3-Dimensional Dialog boxes.
 
* New Money Preview.
 
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3.- TAX FORM TABLES FOR US, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA
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When you install Money, Setup will install a Canadian,
Australian or United States version of the Tax Table,
depending on your Country setting in the International
dialog box of the Microsoft Windows Control Panel. For more
information about the Control Panel, see the Microsoft
Windows documentation.
 
If your Country setting is Australia and if you don't have a
file named MSMONEY.MNY in your Money directory, Setup will
copy a version of MSMONEY.MNY that has been customized for
Australia with a default list of categories already assigned
to the corresponding Tax Form and Tax Form Line.
 
For more information about Assigning Tax Form Information to
Categories and Creating Tax Form Reports, see page 314 of the
User's Guide.
 
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4.- OTHER TIPS
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Excel macro: Setup installs a Microsoft Excel macro to help
convert checking account information from Excel to Money.
See Appendix B in the User's Guide for more information.
 
Charts: If you are displaying a large amount of data in a
chart, some text might be overlapped or clipped. Money
offers several ways to avoid this:
 
* Use a smaller font size.
 
* Lump small percentages together in the Combine All Values Under % Of
Total option, when customizing a report.
 
* Create a different type of chart.
 
On-Line Payees: If you are using Pay On-Line, the first time
you make a connection to On-Line Services, a file called
EPAYEES.LST is downloaded and copied to your hard disk. This
file allows you to add On-Line payees to your list of
payees, and allows Money to calculate the number of days
needed to pay each of them. If you move your MSMONEY.MNY file to a
different directory or computer, or if you make a
backup, remember to copy the EPAYEES.LST file along with the MNY file.
 
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5.- HARDWARE PROBLEMS OR INCOMPATIBILITIES
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This is a list of known hardware incompatibility problems:
 
* If you are using a Telebit QBlazer modem for On-Line Services, add the
following lines to your WIN.INI file:
 
   [MNYESRV]
   InitModem=S58=0S180=0S190=0
 
* If you will be using On-Line Services with a PDI at work, as opposed to
with a standard telephone modem, add these two lines to your win.ini:
 
   [MNYESRV]
   InitModem=S32=0&C1&D3
 
* Printing checks on the HP DeskJet printer
  Money recommends using Laser Voucher checks with this
  printer or printing Laser Standard checks in batches of
  three. Because the DeskJet, DeskJet PLUS and the DeskJet
  500 do not support manual feed, it is difficult to align
  and print on partial pages of checks. The default
  landscape font provides less than optimal results.
 
  Additionally, certain versions of the DeskJet 500 driver
  can cause printing errors. Updating the driver or using
  the DESKJET.DRV driver from Windows 3.00a or higher
  solves this problem.
 
* Printing on a Kyocera F-2010 laser printer
  Money recommends using Laser Voucher checks with this
  printer or printing Laser Standard checks in batches of
  three (to avoid printing on partial pages of checks).
 
  The Kyocera F-2010 printer will not print the leftmost
  three inches of the page when printing in landscape
  mode using the printer's manual feed. You can try
  printing partial pages from the letter-sized tray, but
  proper alignment of partial sheets of checks in the
  tray may be difficult.
 
* Printing checks on IBM 4019 & 4029 laser printers
  When printing a partial page of Laser Standard checks,
  it is recommended that you use the Envelope feed
  for better text alignment. On the printer's front panel,
  choose Envelope feed.
 
* Printing checks on IBM EXECJET printer
  Money recommends using continuous-feed checks; this
  printer prints laser checks in a font that is too large
  for the check.
 
* Printing reports on the Canon LBP-8 Mark III
  When printing reports on this printer there can be
  column alignment problems, missing text and underlines,
  and other potential printing errors.
 
  Please contact your printer dealer to inquire about
  updates to the Windows drivers for this printer.
 
* Printing with NEC PinWriter series
  Printing with the NEC PinWriter with the driver version
  1.331 may cause an Unrecoverable Application Error.
  Contact NEC for a more recent driver, version 1.37 or
  higher.
 
* Micrografx postscript printer driver
  If you are printing with Micrografx Postscript Printer
  driver prior to version 2.6, you will need to install
  the Postscript driver that ships with Microsoft
  Windows 3.0 or 3.1 or contact Micrografx for an updated
  printer driver.
 
  If you are printing with the Micrografx postscript printer
  driver version 2.6 or above and have problems printing,
  you will need to add a line to the MSMONEY.INI file. (The
  file MSMONEY.INI is located in the same directory as
  MSMONEY.EXE.) Open your MSMONEY.INI file with a text
  editor (such as Windows Notepad) and add the following
  line to the file:
 
   UseDefaultPrSetup=1
 
  Save the file and restart Microsoft Money. You will
  now be able to print using the Micrografx postscript
  printer driver.
 
* NEC 800x600 video display adapters
  Certain versions of this display adapter may have
  refresh and display problems. If you experience a
  significant number of display errors (missing text,
  partially drawn screens, etc.), please contact your
  NEC dealer for further information and the most recent
  display driver.
 
* ATM and DCS Speedstar graphics card
  Using Adobe Type Manager and a DCS Speedstar graphics
  card set to 1024x768 resolution / 256 color may cause
  an Unrecoverable Application Error in the Fonts dialog
  in Reports. This can be corrected by installing a DCS
  Speedstar driver with either lower resolution, such as
  the 800x600 resolution / 256 color driver, or with fewer
  colors, such as the 1024x768 resolution /16 color driver.
  You may install these drivers through the Windows Control
  Panel.
 
* Multimedia machines & sound boards
  Some sound boards used with multimedia machines may
  cause an Unrecoverable Application Error when entering
  a transaction in Money. To correct this, in Money, choose
  Settings from the Options menu. Turn off the "Beep on
  Transaction Entry" option.
 
* US-International keyboard
  If you have selected "US-International" keyboard layout
  under Windows 3.1, the SHIFT+" (quotation mark) keyboard
  shortcut will not work as documented in the Money 3 User's
  Guide and online Help. Under the "US-International" layout
  (KBDUSX.DLL), the quotation mark key serves as a dead key
  that allows you to easily type diacritic vowels from non-
  English alphabets. Money 3 preserves this functionality,
  rather than overriding it with the shortcut.
 
* Australian and Canadian users can download additional printer drivers
from the following download services:
 
   Australia: MS BBS: (02) 878-5200
   Canada: MS BBS: 905 507 3022
 
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6.- WHAT FILES MONEY SETS UP ON YOUR COMPUTER
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This section lists each file that Setup installs on your
hard disk, its location, and a brief description of its function.
 
NOTE: If you delete any files and later want to replace
them, use your original Money disk to run the Setup program
and reinstall Money.
 
In the MSMONEY directory:
CALCINT.DLL    File for the Financial Wizards
CALCLOAN.DLL   File for the Financial Wizards
CALCMORT.DLL   File for the Financial Wizards
CALCRETR.DLL   File for the Financial Wizards
CALCSAV.DLL    File for the Financial Wizards
DELUXE.WRI     Windows Write file to order checks for your
               printer
LOANSU.DLL     File for the Financial Wizards
MNYCHEK0.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYCHEK1.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYCHEK2.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYCHEK3.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYCHEK4.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYCHEK5.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYCHEK6.WMF   File for the scenic checks
MNYESRV.DLL    File for the On-Line Services
MSMNYWIZ.DLL   File for the Financial Wizards
MSMONEY.EXE    Microsoft Money program file
MSMONEY.HLP    Microsoft Money Help file
MSMONEY.INI    Microsoft Money Initialization File (your
               settings)
MSMONEY.MNY    Microsoft Money Data File (your data)
MSMONEY3.TXT   This file you are now reading, in text-only
               format
MSMONEY3.HLP   This file you are now reading, in Windows
               Help format
ONLINE.WRI     Windows Write file to sign up for On-Line
               Services
TAXAUS.TBL     Table of Australian Tax Forms
TAXCAN.TBL     Table of Canadian Tax Forms
TAXUSA.TBL     Table of US Tax Forms
TAX.TBL        Final table of Tax Forms and Tax Form Lines
XL2MNY.XLA     Microsoft Excel macro to export financial
               data
WIZHELP.HLP    File with help for the Financial Wizards
 
In the MSMONEY\MONEYCBT directory:
CBTLIB4.DLL    Necessary for the coach and the demos
MSMONEY1.CBT   File for Money Preview demo
MSMONEY2.CBT   File for the Transaction Cue Cards
PLAY.EXE       Necessary for the Cue Cards and the demos
 
In the WINDOWS directory:
KERCHUNK.WAV   File with a sound for transaction entry
COINTABL.WAV   File with a sound for transaction entry
 
In the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory:
CTL3DV2.DLL
 
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