Microsoft KB Archive/179667

Money 98: The Number of Checks to Be Printed Is Not Correct

PSS ID Number: Q179667 Article last modified on 08-18-1998

WINDOWS:98

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Money 98 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

Microsoft Money may not find checks that need to be printed or it may report that there are checks to be printed when there are none. The following symptoms have been reported.

When you put the word “Print” in the check Number field, the print reminder is not shown. Then, when you click Print Checks on the File menu, you receive the following error message:

You don't have any Bank Accounts with checks to be printed. -or-

When you remove Print from all of the check Number fields and click Print Checks on the File menu, you receive a different error message:

There are no checks to print in the ‘Checking’ account. Money will only print checks for transactions that have “Print” in the Number field.

-or-

When you go to the Bills area, you see a reminder that there are 4294967295 checks to print (the actual number may vary). However, there are really no checks to print. If you click Print Checks in the reminder, you receive the following error message:

You don’t have any Bank Accounts with checks to be printed.

-or-

There is a reminder to print checks, but Print is not in any check’s Number field. Then, if you try to print checks you receive the following error message:

There are no checks to be printed.

= CAUSE =

These error messages are all caused by increasing or decreasing the internal check counter in Money.

Money decreases the check counter if you remove Print from the Number field of a transfer transaction before printing your check.

= RESOLUTION =

Microsoft has developed and has made available for download the Prncount.exe utility, that resets the check counter.

NOTE: This file does not prevent the counter from becoming incorrect in the future.

To prevent the counter from becoming incorrect in the future, treat all transfers to be printed in either of the following two ways:

  Print all transfer transactions prior to deleting the word “Print.” For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: Q179666 TITLE : Money 98: The Word “Print” Remains in Transferred Transactions   Enter the Transfer transaction with the final check number. Then, edit the transaction and change the check number to Print. In this case, the transaction in the other account will not have Print in its Number field. 

= STATUS =

Microsoft is currently researching the cause of the check counter being increased, which results in the reminder reporting that there are checks to be printed when none exist.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Download Instructions
NOTE: The file(s) mentioned in this article only apply to the U.S. English version of Microsoft Money 98.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

~ Checkcnt.exe

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q119591 TITLE : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Save the file to a location on your hard disk (not in your Windows folder) and then double-click Checkcnt.exe. This extracts two files:

Prncount.exe - This resets the check printing counter.

Readme.txt - Information on how to use this file.

Contents of Readme.txt
Using the Prncount.exe Utility:

  Copy Prncount.exe to the Microsoft Money folder.   Open your file in Microsoft Money. Remove the word Print from the Number field in all transactions of every account, and in the Bills area.   If you have a password protecting your Money file, remove it. Or, you can use the [-p password] switch when using the utility, (see step 7). </li>  Quit Microsoft Money. </li>  Click the Start button, point to Programs and then click MS-DOS Prompt. </li>  At the MS-DOS Prompt, type the following, changing the path to the specific path where your Microsoft Money data file is stored, then press ENTER: CD “FilesMoney” </li>  At the MS-DOS Prompt, type the following, entering the name of your data file and the name of the new file that will contain the repaired print counter, and press ENTER, for example: prncount [-p password] “old name.mny” “new file name.mny” NOTE: The quotation marks allow you to include spaces that are part of the file name. You can include the password for your Money file if you did not remove it before running the utility. To include your password, use the switch [-p password] (without the brackets), replacing “password” with your file-specific password. (If you don’t have a password, do not type the [-p password] part of the command.) </li>  After the conversion is complete, type “exit” (without the quotation marks) at the MS-DOS prompt, and press ENTER to return to Windows. </li>  Click the Start button, point to Programs and then click Windows Explorer. </li>  Navigate to your Microsoft Money folder. If you want, you can delete or rename your old file. Then, you can rename the new file to the old file’s name. Alternatively, you can leave the new file with the new name if you prefer. </li>  Double-click the new file to associate it with Microsoft Money and open it. Verify that the print counter has been correctly reset. </li></ol>

Additional query words: w_money 98 four billion million print printing check woody reminder print num field check checks ====================================================================== Keywords : kbfile kbprint kbdta Version : WINDOWS:98 Platform : WINDOWS Issue type : kbbug Solution Type : kbfix ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.