Undesired categories appearing in Spending By Category report

Question

If I create a "custom" Spending by Category report, each time that I modify the categories that I wish to include in the report, Quicken randomly includes other categories that I had not selected.  Usually, but not always, this includes all the "_XXX" categories as wall as many of the "(XXX" categories that are in Quicken by default.  I can go in and manually uncheck these (with a lot of work) but then if I do another iteration, a near-random set of these undesired (unchecked) categories reappears.  I'd love to know if anyone else experiences this problem and if any solution has been found — this is just another example imho of Quicken failing to fix the basics of the program while focusing on adding entirely worthless functionality

Bill S123 · Answer

I had a similar problem.  Category Tax Spouse:Fed would show up in every report even when I didn't want it.  It wasn't showing up in the report set up screen as a category to be selected or cleared.  I switched to the old interface and the Category WAS present in the report set up screen and I could deselect it, which allowed me to generate the desired report without the field present.  So there is some problem with the new report set up screens.

ninaemel · Answer

I had the same problem. Tried the above fixes but that did not work for me. Used a good report from another year, customized it to the new year and it solved the problem for me.

GlennQuackenbush · Answer

I have the same issue with unwanted categories showing up in EVERY report. I have switched back to the old interface and the problem seems to be resolved. Seems like this should be posted in the Known Issues category.