[X4U] OT - Help with Quicken categories

[Mark Phillips]

On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:57 PM, revDAVE wrote:

> I took a look and I noticed I
> have some entries -   where the name is something like: company name 
> and
> then a long string of unique numbers ...  So in case like this I might 
> have
> many entries from the same company - however the unique number makes 
> the
> name different for each record - so, in a case like this, would 
> quickfill be
> able to catch these entries?

Well, that is one of the problems. The technology is a bit of a 
simpleton when it comes to making reasonable a guess.  It  checks payee 
as a precise equality. I can see how a programmer might draw the line 
at making a guess on "starts with" or something. I haven't found away 
around it.

I wish I had a better answer.

Mark Phillips
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