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Message to Jorn Lindhard Mortensen

John, we like the power and flexibility of MOA.  However, we have some problems with the reporting function, that is with structuring date formats in the financial statements, both within MOA and produced by it in the Excel format.

Our corporate standard is that all the dates should only be presented in 2 formats:

1) July 1, 2008

2) 2008-07-01

No other date formats are permitted.

Whatever we do, we can't ensure that only these 2 date formats are being presented in both packages (MOA and Excel).  We have the same within MOA statements, some boxes are right and some are wrong.  I.e., in the very same statement we might have 2 dates, one displayed as 2008-09-30 and another one as 9-30-08.  This is of course a recipe for confusion and eventual disaster with the auditors.  I can send you examples if you provide mw with your email address.

We want all the date formats to be generated by MOA, not inserted manually into the spreadsheet after that (much labor and potential for new errors).  How can we do it?  If it is impossible to do, can you fix it in the next update?

Our operating systems (Vista of Windows XL) are always setup with the proper date formats thru Control Panel - Regional and Language Options - Customize Regional Options -tab Time - Change selector Time format: to HH:mm:ss; tab; Date - Change selector Short date: to yyyy-MM dd.

The date formats in the Excel files thru Home - Number - select Date and select the formats for short date:

*2001-03-14

and long date:

*Wednesday, March 14, 2001

But of course we don't want to correct it manually every time we create a spreadsheet.

Your reply will be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Regards

Essits Inc.

Any idea when Office Accounting Pro 2009 will hit the MSDN channel?  I recently installed 2008 and wasn't supplied a key (it auto-filled it) so I can't upgrade to 2009.

Alternately, is there a way to extract my installed 2008 key so I can enter it into 2009?

I upgraded to 2009. Some nice improvements.

One feature that is not friendly is JOBS. If I have a lot of bills entered for a JOB and then want to invoice just some of them, there is no "unselect all" option. They are all selected by default and if you only want a few of the items, then go out and come back in for another item they are all checked again.

This gets very tedious when there are dozens of items.

Please, put the little Unselect All checkbox at the top.

~barney

We like the idea of this package but it has so many bugs in it and the support for it is non-existent (with respect to bugs) that we are seriously thinking about sage, myob or something else - well, anything else at the moment. To be honest the price tag is attractive but the cost is high in lost time and hair - if someone could tell me where to deposit the bugs and when they might be fixed, I might think about a reprieve