How do I change a security from Bond to Mutual Fund?

Stephen Jung

I updated from Quicken for Mac 2007 to Quicken for Mac 2017. Some of my mutual funds were categorized as bonds. How do I change the category to Mutual Fund? The Mutual Fund category is greyed out.

Stephen Jung

RickO said:

Stephen,

The ability to change a bond to a mutual fund was recently implemented in QM18 v.5.4.x. When or if this change may make it backwards into QM17, I do not know.

The only workaround I can suggest (and this might be painful), is to go to the Investing account group transactions view, enter the name of the fund in the search box, and then manually edit each transactions, changing the bond to a new mutual fund security that you create.

One other thing you may want to try... go back to QM07 and fiddle with those funds that got changed to bonds. Change some parameters and maybe even the type (eg. fund to stock) and do another test conversion (into a fresh QM17 database) and see if you can find a tweak to those that will prevent them changing to bonds. Removing the symbol in QM07 before converting might be one thing to try.

I bought it back in May, so a refund is out of the cards. I tried changing the buy/sell transactions, but that wasn't enough. There are dividend transactions that would have to be changed too, and there's no guarantee that would work. I've had those funds for years, so there are a lot of transactions. Ugh. Thank you for your help. 

Stephen Jung

RickO said:

Stephen,

The ability to change a bond to a mutual fund was recently implemented in QM18 v.5.4.x. When or if this change may make it backwards into QM17, I do not know.

The only workaround I can suggest (and this might be painful), is to go to the Investing account group transactions view, enter the name of the fund in the search box, and then manually edit each transactions, changing the bond to a new mutual fund security that you create.

One other thing you may want to try... go back to QM07 and fiddle with those funds that got changed to bonds. Change some parameters and maybe even the type (eg. fund to stock) and do another test conversion (into a fresh QM17 database) and see if you can find a tweak to those that will prevent them changing to bonds. Removing the symbol in QM07 before converting might be one thing to try.

The 40% off sale is still in effect, so I bought it.