Money: No Investment Index List When You Convert from Quicken
  
PSS ID Number: Q192935
Article last modified on 10-15-1998
 
WINDOWS:7.0
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Money 99 Financial Suite
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SYMPTOMS
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When you click the Investments To Watch tab in Money after you convert
a Quicken data file to a Money data file, no indexes are displayed under
the Indexes heading. Instead. the following message is displayed:
 
   Click Add to add an index to the Investments to Watch view.
 
If you click Add to add an index, no index entries are listed.
 
CAUSE
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This behavior occurs because when you convert a Quicken data file
to a Money data file, the Money data file does not contain the index
information.
 
RESOLUTION
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To resolve this issue, use the following methods in the order they are
presented.
 
Add an Index as an Investment
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To add an index as an investment, follow these steps:
 
1. On the Money navigation bar, click Investments.
 
2. Click New.
 
3. Click A New Investment, and then click Next.
 
4. Click Mutual Fund or Stock, and then click Next.
 
5. In the Name box, type the name of the index you want.
 
6. In the Symbol box, type the symbol of the index you want.
 
   NOTE: See the More Information section of this article for the
   names and symbols of the 56 common indexes included in Money.
 
7. Click Finish.
 
If the issue continues to occur, proceed to the next method.
 
Import Quicken Data to New Money Data File
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Create a new Money data file, and then import all the accounts from your
Quicken data file.
 
For information about how to export accounts from Quicken and import them
into Microsoft Money, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:
 
   ARTICLE-ID: Q136112
   TITLE     : Money: Bringing Quicken Files Into Money
 
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Money 99
Financial Suite.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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The indexes included in Money are listed in the following table.
 
   Index                              Symbol
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   All Ordinaries (Sydney)            $SYDI
   AMEX Airline Index                 $XAL.X
   AMEX Biotechnology Index           $BTK.X
   AMEX Broker/Dealer Index           $XBD.X
   AMEX Composite                     $XAX.X
   AMEX Computer Technology Index     $XCI.X
   AMEX Disk Drive Index              $DDX.X
   AMEX Eurotop 100 Index             $TOP.X
   AMEX Gold Bugs Index               $HUI.X
   AMEX Japan Index                   $JPN.X
   AMEX Networking Index              $NWX.X
   AMEX North American Telcomm.       $XTC.X
   AMEX Pharmeceutical Index          $DRG.X
   AMEX Tobacco Index                 $TOB.X
   CAC-40 (Paris)                     $PARI
   CBOE Automotive Index              .AUX.X
   CBOE Computer Software             .CWX.X
   CBOE Gaming Index                  .GAX.X
   CBOE Reit Index                    .RIX.X
   DAX (Frankfurt)                    $DAX
   De Yaeger Year 2000 Index          $YTK.X
   Dow Jones Industrial Average       $INDU
   Dow Jones Transportation           $TRAN
   Dow Jones Utilities                $UTIL
   FTSE (London)                      $FTSE
   Hang Seng (Hong Kong)              $HKHI
   Inter@ctive Week Internet Index    $IIX.X
   Morgan Stanley Commodity-Related   $CRX.X
   Morgan Stanley Consumer Index      $CMR.X
   Morgan Stanley Cyclical Index      $CYC.X
   Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payors   $HMO.X
   Morgan Stanley Healthcare Prod.    $RXP.X
   Morgan Stanley High-Tech 35        $MSH.X
   Morgan Stanley Multinational 50    .NFT.X
   NASDAQ 100 Index                   $NDX.X
   NASDAQ Composite Index             $COMPX
   Nikkei 225 (Tokyo)                 $TOKN
   NYSE Composites                    $NYA.X
   Philadelphia Gold and Silver       $XAU.X
   Philadelphia Semiconductor         $SOX.X
   PSE Technology Index               $PSE.X
   Russell 2000                       $IUX
   Standard & Poor's 100              $OEX
   Standard & Poor's 400 Midcap       $MID.X
   Standard & Poor's 500              $INX
   Standard & Poor's Bank Index       .BIX.X
   Standard & Poor's Chemicals        .CEX.X
   Standard & Poor's Healthcare       .HCX.X
   Standard & Poor's Insurance        .IUX.X
   Standard & Poor's Retail Index     .RLX.X
   Standard & Poor's Transportation   .TRX.X
   Standard & Poor/Barra Growth       .SGX.X
   Standard & Poor/Barra Value        .SVX.X
   Straits Times Indst. (Singapore)   $STRI
   TSE 300 (Toronto)                  $TORN
   Wilshire Small Cap                 $WSX.X
 
Additional query words: w_money 7.0 toy
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Version           : WINDOWS:7.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb
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