Investments . Resolved an issue where Quicken would sometimes record a Miscellaneous Expense (MiscExp) transaction when accepting downloaded investment transactions.
. Fixed an issue where Quicken would crash from a security with a long ticker symbol or name.
. Resolved an issue where Day/Gain Loss would not calculate correctly in some instances when subtotaling by Security.
File Management . Added the Find Files feature to the File Menu when a Quicken data file is not open.
. Fixed an issue where Quicken could not find your last opened file and displayed the "New to Quicken" screen.
Thanks John. You took the time to copy out the info from Intuit. Far more pleasant to read than a bare URL.
My experience with this is that I would try to accept a downloaded investment transaction and I would get the rogue MiscExp. The dollar amount of the rogue MiscExp was always zero. Being stubborn, I would click on the downloaded transaction four times (on average) and thus I would get four rogue MiscExp items in my account register.
I have been using Quicken 2010 since it was published, but I have only been seeing this error for about a month. Oh the mysteries of Quicken.
Thanks for that list. I haven't been offered R10 yet, but I'm doing an OSU in the background as I type this. (Nope - didn't get it yet - maybe tomorrow.)
Because of a very late tax return nearly 20 years ago, the IRS has required Merrill Lynch to withhold income tax from my dividends ever since. Once or twice I filed an updated W-9, but it seemed to have been lost somewhere. Since the withheld tax amounts to only a few dollars a year, and helps eliminate any possible penalty for failing to pay enough estimated taxes, I've just let the withholding continue.
But every time Quicken downloads a dividend transaction from ML, it is accompanied by a "MiscExp" transaction for that withheld tax! So I have a Memorized Investment Transaction to record the tax as a Transfer to FIT Prepaid. I record this entry first, BEFORE clicking on the downloaded transaction and Matching it to the transfer entry. It's a small extra hassle but it works smoothly - unless I forget to record the transfer first; if I forget, then I must delete the downloaded-and-accepted MiscExp entry because Q won't let me simply Edit it to change it to a Transfer.
I don't know if this R10 update will change that situation - but I can hope, can't I? ;^}
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