2 days ago my finance portfolio suddenly changed.?

Question

There's too much space between lines. How can I reduce the space?

Answer 1

The "experts" at Yahoo did it again - trying to fix something that wasn't broken. The view that existed before this one worked just fine - you could print a portfolio with about 40 entries on it with IE7 by selecting the stuff you wanted, go to print preview, view as selected on screen, adjust size scaling, landscape format and you got a nice spreadsheet-type printout for your historical records all on one page. The new view effectively double-spaces the data lines and you must shrink the effective font smaller in order to fit it on one page. Of course they asked for user opinions before doing this, I'm sure. . .

Personally, I liked the previous portfolio printouts that I used to make because they came out in a very nice table with solid black header labels, block printed like an Excel spreadsheet.

One can only hope that they will look at all of the negative comments that have been posted about the "New View."

Comments: finance dash admin at yahoo dash inc dot com

Change your URL to: http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/p?v&k=pf_1

Many thanks to you Murthy for the tip.  I have bookmarked the Yahoo Singapore URL after I successfully linked to my portfolio and I did a "View", "Source", and saved the text file so I have a copy of what works.  Perhaps if enough of us do this we can perpetuate what works the way we like it. I found out that the Yahoo India link leaves the "Div/Shr" and "Yield" columns blank ( - ) but the Yahoo Singapore and Yahoo Canada links do not.  Yahoo Singapore seems to be the closest to what we used to have since it has the "Set Alert" link next to "Create Transaction History" in the lower left.  The chances are that corporate will cram their "New and Improved" format down everybody's throat, worldwide.  Sounds like a classic "Dilbert Syndrome" with too many pointy-haired bosses. . .

Answer 2

I found a fix. I went to Yahoo Finance India page. I can access my portfolios in the older format - including multiple entries of same stock!

Here is the link: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/. BTW, the foreign sites are listed at the bottom of the Yahoo Finance home page. UK & Ireland and Singapore sites are also displaying the old format.

I am not sure how long this will last, but, it sure beats the new crappy format.