How to use this guide

This User's Guide systematically guides you through the most common Money techniques for managing your day-to-day finances and planning your financial future.

You'll learn more about how to manage and plan your finances, by reading explanations of common tasks written in plain English and step-by-step procedures accompanied by helpful illustrations. Also, through real-life strategies and tips throughout the book, you'll learn methods for achieving your own short-term and long-term financial goals using Microsoft Money.

You can read this User's Guide in order, simply by starting here and clicking the next topic in the sequence. Or, you can browse through the different tasks listed in the left pane and read only those topics you're most interested in.

You can use keyboard shortcuts to move around the User's Guide. Press TAB to move to a command, chapter, topic, or link. Press ENTER to select it. To move backwards, press SHIFT+TAB. To return quickly to this topic from anywhere in the User's Guide, press F1.

If you want to keep the User's Guide open while you work in Money, simply click the Minimize button in the upper-right corner of this window. The User's Guide will be minimized to the Windows taskbar. When you want to read more, click its icon on the taskbar and the User's Guide window appears again, at the very page where you left it.

The following table describes how to use the different controls so you can use this User's Guide the way you want.

Use thisà To do thisà

Left pane See a list of suggested tasks to help you use Money most effectively.

Menus See the topics that apply to the selected task. Click a topic title to read more about it.

Back button Return to the last page you visited in the User's Guide.

Forward button Return to the page from which you clicked Back.

Minimize button Minimize the User's Guide window to the Windows taskbar while it holds your place.

Close button Close the User's Guide.

Use thisà	To do thisà
Left pane	See a list of suggested tasks to help you use Money most effectively.
Menus	See the topics that apply to the selected task. Click a topic title to read more about it.
Back button	Return to the last page you visited in the User's Guide.
Forward button	Return to the page from which you clicked Back.
Minimize button	Minimize the User's Guide window to the Windows taskbar while it holds your place.
Close button	Close the User's Guide.

This guide is designed for users of the Microsoft Money 2002 Deluxe edition, which includes all the tools found in the Standard edition, plus powerful financial planning tools such as the Lifetime Planner, Financial Event Modeler, Capital Gains Estimator, and more.

Because of this, if you're using Microsoft Money 2002 Standard edition, some features discussed are not available to you. If you're ready to upgrade to Microsoft Money 2002 Deluxe, on the Help menu, click Upgrade to Deluxe.