Re: shares

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In Reply to: shares posted by Eddie on August 11, 2005 at 13:43:25:

: Mark,
: Thanks for all your help. You were right, it was that the symbols were incorrect. Everything is now perfect except one small detail. The shares I have listed in my reports increase slightly and by fractions. It is probebly because I set the import settings to reinvest dividends. Can I change this without doing the price retrieve again? And if I do have to do it again, will it mess double the dividends recieved?
: Thanks again
: Eddie

Hi Eddie,

Yes, if you retrieved from Yahoo (Historical) and asked it to retrieve dividends and reinvest them, it will increase your share balance. Re-retrieving won't help. I would suggest using the Data Register (Edit / All Data...) with the "Distributions (all)" data type selected, and go through and delete any that may have been double entered due to your own entries plus also being retrieved. You can see which ones were retrieved by memo field. Just delete them there.

The other option is if you haven't yet saved your investments, you could exit without saving, and then re-retrieve, but don't turn on the option to retrieve dividends. See "Options / Save Investments on Exit".

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

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