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In article <1993Jan12.020055.4194@verity.com> Anders Wallgren <anders@verity.com> writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.080704.5971@henson.cc.wwu.edu> John Hatten,
>n7949188@henson.cc.wwu.edu writes:
>>I've been seeing lot of discussion about Managing Your Money, and
>Quicken,
>>but very little about MacMoney. Is this software still being made?
>Are the
>>other two better? 
>
>I used MacMoney for about two years, but switched to Quicken about
>a year ago.

Me too!

>The MacMoney interface just got to me in the end.  It's very modal:
>you can't have more than one account open at a time, and the
>windows are fixed size.  There was also this annoying memory-saving
>'feature' which loads a set number of records into memory at any
>one time and you have to page through the sets by hitting a
>next/previous button (in addition to the scroll bar).  All in all,
>it worked, but the interface definately showed that it was designed
>quite a few years ago when all Macintoshes had 9" screens and
>little memory.

Reconciliation of an account was annoying also.  If you made a mistake
in entering a check amount (something I do at least once a month) you
had to quit reconciliation, fix the erroneous amount and start up
reconciliation again.  In Quicken, you can just double click on the
check that needs fixing, fix it and keep on going.

My husband misses MacMoney because it did pie charts and Quicken
doesn't.  However, the pie charts weren't completely accurate (for
what we wanted to see).  If you made $1,000 and only spent $800, the
pie chart showed a breakdown of the $800.  It didn't show the $200
that you indirectly had saved.  

We also got a good laugh out of the cash flow trend graph.  It always
showed our cash flow going "down the toliet" no matter how much money
we had saved.  I don't quite remember why this was so; it could be
that we would save for 3 or 4 months and then have a big expense.
Still, cash flow was positive.  In all fairness, at that time we
didn't track all our savings accounts and investments, so I don't
think the shortcomings of the cash flow trend were completley
MacMoney's fault.

So, our finances aren't quite as fun now with Quicken, but they are
definitely easier to handle.  :-)

Kathie
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