MS Money v. Q

Quicken may have more banks for downloading. Not sure. I tried to switch to money but they make it just about impossible to export/import all your data. I guess I'm married to quicken now since I've got about

joe wrote:

Joe the various experts who review these programs say Money one year and Quicken another. There is one thing I can tell you with some certainty -- converting your data from either program to the other is at best a large pain. Entries get truncated. Some things are lost. Some versions are not convertible, etc.

When I went from Quicken to Money, it was a nightmare. After fighting Money for 9 months I went back to Quicken. I actually manually entered the 9 months worth of data -- that was faster and easier.

The reports are very different between the two, so if you "like" and use reports on either program, you will have trouble in the other. In the case of Money, I could not get the reports in some cases to do what I needed.

The last thing you might want to consider is this. Microsoft brought out Excel and killed Lotus. Microsoft brought out Word and kill WordPerfect and WordStar. Microsoft bought Fox Software and used that as a tool to kill Base. Microsoft has tried for over a decade to make Money a winner vs. Quicken and for some reasons has not done so. Quicken has way over 50% of the market. There must be a reason.

Gord>How does MS money compare to Quicken in terms of features and ease of

WordPerfect *is not dead*. Take a look at: .

Reviewers no doubt have an interest in keeping a fight going. That is one reason I ask real users here. Did not know there was such a problem converting data from one to the other. Even basic checkbook data? Is there a similar problem of converting from Turbotax to Taxcut and back?

I also avoid MS when possible. Size is not good in all cases. Even Netscape has gotten more self-serving and clumsy to use. joe

After reading a couple of years ago that Money had "pulled ahead of Quicken", I decided to give it a fair chance. I was going to use both in parallel for a month or two and then decide which I liked better.

As someone else said in this thread, I found out the hard way that converting my Quicken file to Money was impossible. It refused to convert entire accounts, in some cases. I've never tried it the other way, but I hear it's just as bad.

The reality is, > Reviewers no doubt have an interest in keeping a fight going. That is