The format of my portfolio in Yahoo Finance has recently been changed. How can I get it in the old format?

Question

I have set up a portfolio in Yahoo Finance for tracking market fluctuations. I see a change in display format of my portfolio. I am not comfortable with it. I cannot see Transaction History and other options which were available before. Can I switch back to the old format?

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

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.  This works for now, but the chances are that corporate will eventually 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

Good luck.  Yahoo made the "mistake" of giving people the option to use their new home page or the old one, and nobody's using the new one because it sucks.

I think the lesson they took away from that experience was just to change things without bothering to ask anyone's opinions any more.

It sucks.  Every change they've made recently sucks.  They don't listen. They don't care.  They don't read these message boards, apparently.

Additional info: I've gotten word back from Yahoo! that they changed the layout of the Finance Portfolios pages "to make them more consistent with other Yahoo! pages."

So now the Finance Portfolios pages are more consistent with all the other changes that Yahoo has made recently that nobody likes. I suspect that nobody will like this one, either, and that Yahoo couldn't care less.