Been a Quicken user in the past? Microsoft Money includes special utilities to ease the acclimatisation of your Quicken interpretation to Microsoft Money. Microsoft Money additionally includes import and trade collection that you may, in a little situations, be equates to to have make have make make make use of of of of of of to move monetary interpretation in between Money and alternative programs.
Automatic Conversions of Quicken Data
When you implement the Money software, the Installation Wizard looks for any Quicken
data files on your computer. It should find one, if it exists. And if it does find a Quicken
data file, the Installation Wizard suggests you modify this Quicken record to a Money
data file. Assuming you determine with Money’s suggestion, Money does the conversion
automatically. You don’t have to be concerned about a thing.
If for a little reason you name not to accept Money’s suggestion, or maybe you installed
Money on a mechanism where Money wasn’t equates to to find a Quicken interpretation file, you can have make have make make make use of of of of of of the File menu’s Convert Quicken File authority to modify the Quicken interpretation record to the Money interpretation file.
To perform this operation, name the File menu’s Convert Quicken File command.
When Money displays the Convert Quicken File dialog box, have make have make make make use of of of of of of the Look In box to
identify the printed matter land the Quicken record you wish to convert.
When Money lists the files in the comparison folder, double-click the record you wish to
convert.
The Convert Quicken File authority converts Quicken files in the .qdb, .qdg, or .qdf
file formats. These record formats have been local Quicken record formats. In alternative words, these
file formats—actually record extensions—are those used by Quicken files on a regular, day-to-day basis. If you wish to modify a Quicken interpretation record that’s been stored in the Quicken rotate format—this is a record that uses the .qif-file-format record extension— you need to have make have make make make use of of of of of of the File menu’s Import command.
WARNING The .qif record format is a special record format that Intuit combined for Quicken
to have it simpler for Quicken users to share interpretation with alternative programs. In my
experience, the .qif format is not all that successful as a approach to move data
between programs. I’m not certain possibly this is since Quicken has difficulty essay .qif files or since alternative programs, together with Money, have difficulty reading
.qif files. In any event, I counsel you opposite regulating this record format carelessly. Be certain to check the interpretation that’s alien or exported once it reaches the last destination.
Importing a Quicken or .qif file
You can import both Quicken and .qif files regulating the File menu’s Import command.
When you name the command, Money displays the Import dialog box. Use the Look In box to brand the printed matter place of the record you wish to import. After you name it, Money lists the files in the printed matter in the area underneath the Look In box. To import the file, simply double-click it.
After you import the file—this radically equates to you emanate a brand brand new duplicate of the record that
Money can understand—using the old Quicken or .qif file, you can work with the file
in the common way.
Export to the .qif interpretation format
You can emanate a .qif record regulating the Money interpretation file. You would do this as if in
one situation: You wish to move interpretation from Money to Quicken, and to do so you need
to take your Money interpretation file, modify it to a .qif file, and afterwards import this record in to the
Quicken program.
To perform such an trade operation, take the following steps:
1. Open the Money interpretation record you wish to export.
Probably the Money interpretation record that you wish to trade is already open. If it isn’t, use
the File menu to open it.
2. Tell Money you wish to trade the file’s information.
Choose the File menu’s Export command. Money displays the initial Export dialog
box. This dialog box asks possibly you wish Loose QIF format or Strict QIF format. In general, you need to have make have make make make use of of of of of of the Strict QIF format. Only
the Money module understands the Loose QIF format.
3. Pick a name and place for the brand brand new file.
After you brand that of these dual .qif files you wish to use, click the OK button.
When you do this, Money displays the second Export dialog box. Select the printed matter place you wish for the to-be-exported record regulating the Save
In box. Use the File Name box to name the file. The record prolongation needs to be .qif,
but you don’t have to supply the record extension. Money reserve it automatically.
4. Select the accounts you wish to export.
After you have declared the file, click the OK button. Money afterwards displays a third
Export dialog box. Money uses this dialog box to ask that accounts you wish to
export: unchanging accounts, that embody bank, credit card, cash, and guilt accounts;
or investment accounts, that embody usually investment accounts. Indicate which
collection of accounts you wish to trade by clicking possibly the Regular or Investment
option button, and afterwards click the OK button. Money subsequent displays a list of
accounts in the comparison categories. Select the accounts you wish by clicking them—
when you click an account, Money highlights it to brand the comparison account—
and afterwards click the Continue button. Money afterwards exports the exchange in the
selected accounts, and that’s it.