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I'm stumped. Placeholder can't be resolved

Hi, I am using Quicken 2005 Deluxe R5. I cannot eliminate the N/A placehoder in the Transaction list for several bonds. An example is shown below. This bond was bought in 2001 and ALL historical data has been entered. I have been to the Quicken site to find a solution as well as reading various posts in this newsgroup, but to no avail. I have tried to delete and re-enter the 10/15/2004 entry, but I get the same N/A results. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks, Ron G.

Date............Action.....Description....Cash Amt 9/15/2004 IntInc Bond_A $64.03

10/15/2004 IntInc Bond_A N/A 11/15/2004 IntInc Bond_A $63.74 12/15/2004 IntInc Bond_A $54.64
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spm_no
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Delete the history, delete the placeholder, re-enter the history.

Reply to
John Pollard

John - thanks for the reply. Since this is happening to multiple bonds with long histories....

1) is there a way to avoid this problem in the future? ie. can you give your insight on what typically triggers this bug in Quicken? 2) is there really no other solution than re-entering tons of transations?

Thanks again, Ron G.

Reply to
spm_no

What I do is to never accept a placeholder in the first place. I realize that does little for you if you have already accepted one, but I think you can avoid almost 100% of them (if you elect to have Quicken treat your mm fund as cash, I think you must accept the placeholder Quicken generates, but that's the only one I know that you can't avoid).

I get offerred the occasional placeholder, but usually because the fi does not download correct holdings. Because I reconcile my accounts regularly, I know when they are correct and skip the placeholder. And if I should get my account out of balance, I manually fix the problem and the placeholder suggestion goes away.

I'm not sure whether Inuit considers the treatment a bug or not; Q2006 acts the same way.

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John Pollard

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