Microsoft KB Archive/149890

= Money: Character Limitations When Printing Checks =

Article ID: 149890

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Money 2004 Deluxe Edition
 * Microsoft Money 2001 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Money 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Money 99 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Money 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Money 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Money 2000 Business & Personal Edition
 * Microsoft Money 98 Deluxe Edition
 * Microsoft Money 98 Financial Suite Edition

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SUMMARY
There are limitations on how many characters will print in the fields of a check. This article describes these limitations and some possible results that may occur when reaching or exceeding the limits.



MORE INFORMATION
 Area                   Character Limitation

Date                   8 (for example 12/12/95)

Payee Name             32

Amount Number Money 99 and later        14 Earlier versions     10 (7 digits before the decimal plus one comma                         if needed, and 2 after). Wallet checks will print up to 12 characters (printing up to two                        commas). Maximum check amount is 9,999,999.99.

Amount Text            Approximately 60 characters. Voucher and Standard checks may print a few more characters than Wallet checks (both Laser                        style and continuous feed). If the spelled out amount will not fit within this 60-character limitation, the amount will not be spelled but will be printed as a number.

Memo                   32 on the main check 24 on the stub of Wallet checks 45 in the voucher portions of Voucher checks

Category/Sub-Category  32 on Voucher checks 24 on Wallet checks

Account Name           18 on Voucher checks printed from Money 95 and 19 on Voucher checks printed from Money 3.0, 32 on Wallet checks

Description in a split 30

Category or Sub-category in a split 32

Amount in a split Money 99             14 Previous versions    10

Lines in a split       16 maximum lines of the split information will print in the voucher portions of a Voucher check. (Only Voucher checks print split                        information). Wallet checks have an overall limitation of 24 characters in the stub portion. This affects the Pay To, Memo, Category, and Account.

Voucher checks have a limitation of 32 characters for the Category and Subcategory combined in the voucher sections. And because the format is "Category : Subcategory" with the space colon space using three of the characters, only 29 total characters of the category and subcategory will print.

Possible unexpected results:
 * Characters will be cut off due to the limitations.
 * If an amount is 1 million or more, the commas will not print on Standard and Voucher checks.
 * If the Category is longer than 24 characters, none of the subcategory will print on a Wallet's stub, and if the Category is longer that 29 characters, nothing from the subcategory will print on the voucher portions of Voucher checks.
 * On a Voucher check printed from Money 4.0 or 4.0a for Windows 95, if the Account name is longer than 17 characters and there is a memo for the check, the Account name and memo will appear to merge together. You can resolve this by renaming the account to fewer than 18 characters, making sure the account name's eighteenth character is a space, or starting the memo for this check with a space.
 * If a split transaction has more than 16 lines of detail, only the first 16 will print in the voucher portions of a Voucher check, so the total of the printed lines may not equal the total of the check. This can be resolved by combining lines in the split to reduce the number of lines to 16 or fewer.

NOTE: Some of the limitations may be dependent upon the font used by the printer to print the checks or by the printer or printer driver used.

Additional query words: money2004 w_money subcategory sub-category cut off cutoff cut- truncated trancating clipped edge 97 6.0 7.0 money2k money2000 planet m2001

Keywords: kbinfo kbprint KB149890

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