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I use Microsoft Money<\/a> 2000 to manage my home finances. It’s old (read out of support) and a bit confusing when it comes to investments, but it suits my needs and I don’t see any need to upgrade to the latest version right now.<\/p>\n

One of Money’s many features is the ability to download stock quotes from MSN Money but mid-way through last year this stopped working properly, resulting in the following message when attempting to update online quotes:<\/p>\n

Online Quotes and Exchange Rates:<\/em><\/p>\n

Money was unable to retrieve a quote for FTSE (London). The symbol $US:FTSE is invalid. To correct an invalid or expired symbol, go to the Details for that investment from the Portfolio and correct or delete the symbol. <\/em><\/p>\n

The problem is that versions of Money up to 2001 do not allow the investment symbols to be edited<\/a>. A search of the microsoft.public.uk.money<\/a> newsgroup turned up some useful information (along with lots of ranting about how Microsoft should fix this – they should, it’s easy enough but hey!) but with help from the advice in one particular thread, I got things working again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Firstly, I backed up my money data file (*.mny).<\/li>\n
  2. Then, I downloaded a hex editor. The evaluation version of the one mentioned in the thread only handles 10MB files (mine was 13MB), so I used Cygnus Hex Editor<\/a> (v2.50).<\/li>\n
  3. Next, I used the Find Data function to search for the old symbol of 55 00 53 00 3A 00 46 00 54 00 53 00 45 (U.S.:.F.T.S.E.). In my data file, this appeared twice.<\/li>\n
  4. I replaced both instances of the old symbol with 47 00 42 00 3A 00 55 00 4B 00 58 00 00 00 (G.B.:.U.K.X…) and saved the edited data file.<\/li>\n
  5. After relaunching Money, I was able to successfully download FTSE data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The less technical method of tracking the FTSE is to create an investment to watch, using the $UKX symbol. Whilst this works, it is quoted in pounds (not pence), so is inaccurate by a factor of 100, and doesn’t seem to allow comparisons (for instance, it is often useful to compare a stock against an index).<\/p>\n

    Now all I need to fix is that investment I made in March 2001, just before the markets took a tumble…<\/p>\n

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