Microsoft KB Archive/176331

INV: Investor Assigns Strange Symbols to Money 98 Securities

PSS ID Number: Q176331 Article last modified on 12-23-1998

WINDOWS:98

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 Microsoft Money 98 == MSN MoneyCentral == 

= SYMPTOMS =

When you update quotes for a Microsoft Money investment account linked to MSN Investor, some symbols may contain strange characters, such as “!!!!!!1” or “!!!!!!2.”

You may also receive error messages that list items that could not be processed in the Call Summary, similar to the following line:

The symbol, !!!!!!1, is invalid.

= CAUSE =

This happens when you link a Money account that has investments without valid ticker symbols. Investor requires a symbol.

Investor will prompt you to enter a symbol for any security whose symbol is blank in the Money Investment Details. If you click Skip, the earlier versions of Investor would generate a symbol, in the form !!!!!!#, and insert it in the Money symbol field for that security.

The next time you update prices in Money through Online Quotes or Update Internet Information, these new symbols will also be sent.

= RESOLUTION =

When updating prices through Online Quotes, click to clear the check box for those symbols.

= STATUS =

The current version of Investor no longer automatically enters this “skip ticker” symbols. If you still have some of these types of tickers symbols, in Money you can edit the symbol to remove or change the symbol.

Note that if you remove the symbol, Investor will still prompt you for the symbol whenever you update the account that contains that investment. But it will no longer assign it a “skip ticker” symbol.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Since Money allows you to update quote information during all Internet connections, and if you are not specifically doing an Online Quotes call, you do not get a chance to exclude the improper symbols, and you receive the error messages. You can change the Update Internet Information to exclude the price updates.

Exclude Price Updates
To exclude price updates, follow these steps:


 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Options.
 * 2) Click Online Services, click to clear the “Stock Quotes and News from Investor” check box, and then click OK.

Symbols in Money are not excluded by default. You must exclude the improper symbols each session.

= Additional query words: w_money 6.0 Inv mny Online garbage =

Keywords : kbinterop kbdta Version : WINDOWS:98 Platform : WINDOWS Issue type : kbbug Solution Type : kbpending ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.