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If you want to skip the manual stepsВ of saving the file and changing the file extension, you will have to do a few tweaks to make the computer open the. ofx, you can import the transactions into Money by double-clicking on the downloaded file. If you just save the downloaded file and you change the fileвЂ™s extension from. Because Quicken is still around, most of them still offer downloads from their websites in the Quicken Web Connect format. However, many banks and brokers now stopped offering direct downloads in MoneyвЂ™s OFX file format. This takes care of updating the stock and fund prices, and downloading transactions from banks and brokers that still support direct downloads in MoneyвЂ™s OFX file format. The setup is well documented on the PocketSense website. Because Robert did a much better job than my initial primitive attempt, I now use RobertвЂ™s system called PocketSense.

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With some initial input from me, a third-party developer Robert developed ways to download transactions and stock and fund prices and update them in Microsoft Money. See Mint and Personal Capital vs Quicken and Microsoft Money. The new generation online and mobile account tracking applications such as Mint or Personal Capital are easier to use but desktop applications such as Microsoft Money or Quicken still have their advantages in some ways. I had no problem in installing it or running it on Windows 10. Other than not being able to automatically download transactions and securities prices, the softwareВ still works. Even if you never used Microsoft Money before, you can still start using it now, and itвЂ™s all free. They made the last version a free download for everyone (see Money Plus Sunset DeluxeВ and Money Plus Sunset Home and Business). Microsoft Money is a software program on Windows for tracking your accounts, similar to Quicken. IвЂ™m documenting them here in case someone else also wants to do the same thing. Getting Microsoft Money to run on it the way I wanted took a few tweaks.

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