Quicken 2001 Deluxe - already importing my checking account transactions with QIF files downloaded from my bank. How does one do this WITHOUT reconciling? That is, the import and acceptance process marks the items as reconciled.
Q2001 is too old for me to remember what capabilities it had.
If you had a newer version of Quicken, I would suggest you tell Quicken you do not want to "auto reconcile" ( and possibly that you do not want to reconcile to an Online Balance"). Both options are chosen in the "Reconcile" dialog.
[Please note that if you switch from reconciling to an Online Balance, you will probably have to re-reconcile all the transactions in the account ... though you should be able to do that in a single "reconcile". Switching from doing an "auto reconcile" does not create any problems I know of.]
After a sound sleep, I have one other thought.
Your financial institution may be putting a "Cleared status" of "R" (or "X") in the QIF file you are importing. That's easy enough to check: open the QIF file in Wordpad or Notepad and look for records with a "C" in position one. If such records are present and they have an "R" or "X" in position two, that is the source of your "automatically" reconciled transactions.
The only way to prevent the effect is to modify the QIF file to either delete those records with a "C" in position one, or to change the "CR/CX" to "C" (or "Cc", if you want the transactions to be "Cleared" when Accepted into Quicken).
Success - Thanks for suggestion. Each transaction is as below. First, I did a "find and replace" to remove the "C*" for all transactions and then deleted the blank lines where the C* had been.. !Type:Bank D06/26/2007
T-25.00
PMC-Vendor Name
C*
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