Re: date & price importing

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In Reply to: Re: date & price importing posted by Mark on January 31, 2005 at 09:43:41:

: : Hi Mark;
: : I did a manual transaction import for my dividends for January. I made a big mistake I opened my portfolio sub portfolio to import my dividends instead of importing to the master portfolio & Fm created 3 new investments& recorded a split for 2 investments I don't see how I could have done it by accident. Can you think of a way FM would record a spilt without being told too?
: : I thought I might not have had a file open that I got a dividend for but the price was getting updated so it must have be open.
: : Importing to the sub portfolio is what did part of the mess up because on my old back up computer I imported to the Master portfolio& every thing worked OK
: : Another problem that is incontinent in all my dividend records the year is missing can I set FM 7 to show year automatically. my old computer is showing the date

:
: Hi Lawrence,

: Just a tip for you... Whem importing or retrieving there is a "New Investment"
: column in the preview dialog. This way you'll know if FM needs to create a new
: investment for a particular transaction.

: I'd double check that a split transaction wasn't in the importing file. The
: other ways it can get recorded is either manually, or if you retrieve from
: Yahoo (Historical) using the Professional version, there is an option to
: retrieve dividends and another option to retrieve splits.

: Are you saying that all your recorded dividends don't show the year? Where
: are you looking to see this?

: Thanks,
: Mark
Hi Mark;
I just checked FM 7 on my XP machine the date year is missing on a whole screen full of Dividends for GE I checked another stock & saw the same results. I didn't check my old ME machine today but last Friday with FM7 I checked several investments & year # is there on ME machine. When I up dated the ME machine to FM 7 I copied the whole Data file from the XP machine to the ME machine, so a setting on FM on my XP machine is not set correctly or something in XP is messing up the dates year.
I just checked the old machine dates for several investments all showed a date year
I am looking at the date info in the edit all data function
The date is missing in all functions, purchases, dividends, capitol gains& prices
I checked Options Preferences, display & date format is set for MM/DD/YY
The unusual splits didn't show up on old computer either.
The date info is in there because I can see in if highlight a item and select the edit command.
I have the personal version of FM
The unusual splits probably occurred by trying to import to a sub portfolio

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: Mark Beiley
: Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003
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