I have MS Money Deluxe,( v17.0.120.3817). I have use the program since 2010 across 2 bank accounts, but really ahve never used nor cared about any online inter-operability with a bank account. I just use it to keep a personal record of my bank account.
Recently I discovered that the program simply will not generate a spending report "by payee". I can generate one by category, but that is useless to me. I never properly set up categories for everything, mainly because there just weren't enough categories
to be useful. If I do a report by category, for any date range, it works. So at least i can get my total spending for, say, the previous year. But when I try the same for spending by payee, I just get a nicely formatted report with no data... no payees, no
totals, no grand total. Even if I try getting the payee report for just the last month, the result is the same. I think I've tried every sensible variation
So here's the issue I found that solved the problem. After selecting the "Spending by Payee", I went to "Customize", and checked to see that everything made sense. When I got to the "amount" tab I saw something strange: The "from:" box was blank, and the "To:" box contained a zero. As soon as I put '0' in the "from", and a number beyond anything I'd expect (I used $50000) in the "From", the report immediately filled in with useful totals!
So here's the issue I found that solved the problem. After selecting the "Spending by Payee", I went to "Customize", and checked to see that everything made sense. When I got to the "amount" tab I saw something strange: The "from:" box was blank, and the "To:" box contained a zero. As soon as I put '0' in the "from", and a number beyond anything I'd expect (I used $50000) in the "From", the report immediately filled in with useful totals!