Turn of Office Assistant
I prefer Excel - Money and Quicken do TOO much in my opinion. I don't like thinking about my money that often (or at least in that amount of detail that often), and I don't like MS Money's layout.
I do NOT like automatic downloading for personal transactions. I think there is a lot of power in writing things down yourself when you make the purchase (or recording them manually somewhere). It's a great control on cutting expenses - writing things down yourself. When something does it for you automatically, you lose that advantage.
I prefer the flexibility of an Excel spreadsheet. My commercial version imposes
Rules on the cash flow of the user that help them stay on track, in a conservative financial position as a household. Quicken and MS Money obviously can't do that.
Also, the added skills I have since using Excel have helped me with my job - an extra plus.
Is there any way you can try a trial version or something like that?