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Unable to permanently delete certain categories
Chris Sowerby
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Certain employment-related categories do not apply to me and never will, so I deleted them. Some time later, they will re-appear without any action on my part. This is particularly annoying because every time I run a related report, Quicken then asks if I want to include them. To avoid this, I have to re-save every affected report with those categories excluded. The only workaround is to hide those categories so they don't show up in the list, but I'd like to know why they can't just be removed once and for all.
It's been a while since I looked but I believe the categories are Employer Benefit, Profit Sharing , Holiday:Holiday, Sick Pay:Sick Pay, Vacation:Vacation. In fact each of the last 3 appears twice in the category list,
but they're not shown as subcategories of my income or my spouse's.
I've tried more than once but the result is always the same. Sure would be nice to get rid of these superfluous categories without having them come back again!
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