Know more about My Watchlist

Anonymous
2014-09-30T17:19:36+00:00

Learn more about the new features in MyWatchlist by clicking here: My Watchlist: FAQ

You may have recently imported data from the Classic MSN or my.msn.com  pages to the new MSN.com Money Watchlist/Portfolio and may not have received all of your Watchlist/Portfolio data. The MSN team has resolved the issue and you can now regain access to that information by following the steps below.

Note: These steps only apply if your Watchlist has already been imported and there is data missing. If you have not already imported a Watchlist, please go to the Watchlist, sign in, and you will then be prompted to begin the import. You may need to return to this step if you find that data is missing after your first attempt to import.

Step 1: Create a new Watchlist and delete any Watchlists from previous imports

Step 2: Re-import your existing Watchlist or Portfolio data from MSN.com or my.msn.com into a new Watchlist

Step 3: Clean any erroneous data imported into your new Watchlist(s).

If you need more details about the steps, please go to this article.

If you are still having difficulties or would like to report any errors, please reply to this thread.

Thank you!

Adriana_F

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T12:04:46+00:00

    did you get all your accounts, stocks and transactions? Mine just came on but the only thing i have is compx, indust, etc

    Yes, the old PM is working ok for me so far.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T09:15:57+00:00

    I was finally able to import my 20+ years of data into the new My Watchlist and it is an unmitigated diaster. The new system is horrible, has very limited funtionality, and completly useless for anyone with a large data base. How can Microsoft be so stupid! I guess they just don't care. Can someone help me as to how to save the database to Excel; not sure i understand how to do it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T06:44:19+00:00

    Yes David!! They have an excellent program so they have to change it to a terrible program that you can not even down load. I have worked for days trying to move my portfolio over but nothing works like they say it does.

    Jimmie

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T05:56:56+00:00

    Is it at all possible to retrieve all the transactions without laboriously copying them by hand?

    Hi fitzVY,

    You can export the data to Excel by clicking on the Print Portfolio button. A table of the data is displayed, select the table (CTRL+A), copy (CTRL+C) and then paste it (CTRL+V) into Excel.

    Hope this answer your question.

    Thanks,

    Adriana

    Adriana,

    I think you are not understanding that copying and pasting the print preview only gets us top-level summary data and not all of our transaction history, which is what we need in order to do the kind of detailed tracking that made us use the msn portfolio in the first place. Please help us get access to the transaction data in some sort of exportable form.

    Yes, David - exactly! They seem to be unclear on the concept here!

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T05:53:31+00:00

    Thanks,

    Adriana

    Adriana - not sure if you had anything to do with getting the old PM back up, but thanks for any influence you may have had.  Because the old PM has been inaccessible for a week after announcing an imminent shutdown, it seems only fair to extend that deadline.  People are scrambling trying to get data out of the old PM, and it's just not a very friendly program in that regard.  Have you asked the programmers if there is a way we can export from the old PM to a data file like a CSV?

    Also, please let the powers that be know that they are shutting down one of the best PM's on the internet in favor of a very mediocre and commonplace offering.  The usefulness is gone for me, and I will not be using the new My Watchlist.  I don't know what I will be using, but this whole scenario has really soured me and shaken my trust.  The old PM is a wonderful tool.  If it had been advertised better, I believe you would find you could attract a multitude of users to that platform.  The new My Watchlist looks way too much like everything else out there.

    Thanks for being our sounding board.  I wish you were an MSN senior officer, so you could really get something done.

    Ron

    That covers it very well, Ron! It would only be fair to give us a time extension to manually extract our data before they sink the ship, but it doesn't look like that's their plan.

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