A couple of years ago I had run an older version of Money and had set it up
so that certain payees went into specific categories. For example anything
that went to Wells Fargo was automatically assigned to the Automobile Payment
category.
I want to remove those assingments.
OK. I understand what you are trying to achieve.
Money remembers the last category you used for a Payee, and presents
that as an initial guess as the category this time. You can have
Money automatically present the drop-down list to select a different
category if you like.
Tools->Settings->AccountSettings(global)->AutomaticallyDropDownCategoryAndPayeeListsWhen....
To work around this for a particular payee, you could add Wells
Fargo to your "Excluded payee names" at
Banking->AccountTools->Categories&Payees->Payees->GoToPayeeRulesManager
and see if that helps you.
I thought there might be a setting that says to not fill in the
previous category, but I don't find that.
In most Microsoft applications somewhere within the app there is the ability
to restore the application to the default settings as they existed when the
app was first installed.
You said that before. I remain skeptical of that statement.
In Money, the Payee/Category associations are in the Money file.
File->New->NewFile would let you start over, but that would start
without your transactions, accounts, etc.