My Money for Windows 2.0.64
Reviewing 2.0.20 Beta (Mar 15, 2008)
I will bump my previous review up one notch, and the reasons are simple. For starters, and probably the most important one is that the authors listen and pay attention.
While the add new payee box still comes up when you enter something new, you can't turn it off, but it's a simple thing to ignore it and hit enter.
The program now includes settings in the options that allow you choose which field will be the default start field on new entries. you can set it to be the check number, payee field, amounts... etc. If you're like me, and never write checks, you can set to skip over the number field entirely.
The sorting issue has been resolved. Now, if you accidentally skip an entry, and come back to it later, it will give you a proper running balance based on the amount of the transaction at the current entry, not the balance from where the entry should have been made.
There are a few other bugs that need to be worked out, and I am still testing this thing to its fullest functionality. New bugs include:
1. No alternate key setting to use instead of the tab button. I'd rather hit the enter key to change to the next field and there's no way to change that... yet.
2. The calculator doesn't perform correctly when entering a chronological addition/subtraction. i.e. $200 - 10 - 48 - 30 - 2 + 20 should equal $130... but when you hit the + button, the calculator resets itself to 0. beware the = button during your calculations, otherwise the totals go crazy.
3. When tabbing into the date field, the + or - key will scroll through the dates adding or subtracting a date at a time. When you tab out, however, it switches back to the current date. You have to manually click in that field, and change the date by clicking on one in the calendar, or type it in. What this field SHOULD do is remain on the last date you entered anything in the field. If you're like me, you wait a few days to enter transactions which took place over the course of those few days, and there may be more than one on each of those days. Hitting the + key is a nice quick way to change a date.
4. The uninstall leaves behind the \program files\MTH folder (though empty) and leaves behind quite a few registry orphans that had to be cleaned with registry cleaner du jour.
They're working on it, they're listening to suggestions and bug submissions, and it's getting better. I eagerly await the next release.
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