This with Q2006 on XP/Pro: and some background. A while back [like 2 yrs ago or something -- likely just when I was first installing q2006 or the likely], I VERY mistakenly and unintentionally turned "online reconcile" instead of the "paper" reconcile I've been using for forever now. When they say it is hard to "go back" once you do online, they *MEAN*IT*. It totally screwed up my register and I pretty much have never been able to get things sorted out again [I didn't figure out what the problem was [hadn't even *occurred* to me that it was online-reconcile!] until I'd run off the end of my many backups. sigh]. Anyhow, after a lot of screwing around trying to get things working from "paper" again, I eventually kind of gave up, let Quicken put in a fake "balance adjustment" entry and kind of got back to balancing my acct [against the paper docs again]. The 'adjustment' came because I *KNOW* that several very old transactions had been carried forward in my register as having never been cashed and I really tried to remember what they are [basically solving the knapsack problem..:o)] to get the damn thing to balance, and just gave up.
Anyhow, I was pretty sure things were OK except about a month ago I got a letter from someone I had made an online payment to last October: they had misplaced the check that Wachovia had mailed them, and were afraid to try cashing it now so they were returning it and asking me to send them a replacement. That'd be fine, *except* when I looked at my register that check was marked 'R'. WTF?? I went through my [paper] statements and I, in fact, cannot find an entry that would correspond to that check actually being cashed. And now I don't know what to do.
This also touches on the fact that I don't know exactly what happens when Wachovia sends off a check for an online payment. I know that if I do that with a handwritten check, *nothing* happens: if the payee mails me the check back I can just destroy it and void the transaction, no harm no foul. But I think I'm going to be in a bit of trouble if I try to do that with this here Wachovia-issued check: I assume that I *cannot* just destroy the check and void the transaction.... But what should I do with the check?
AND: what should I do about my register. Will things still balance if I [somehow] cancel out that transaction, or will that now put me $900 out of kilter with the online balance or something?
I was *so* close to believing that I had managed to get past the online-reconcile debacle and now this... Thanks!!
/Bernie\