The yahoo portfolio format that I had setup on my computer for 8 years changed after my computer crashed. why?

Question

The yahoo portfolio format that I had setup on my computer for 8 years changed after my computer crashed. why?

Answer 1

The new format it's really terrible. As suggested above, click on an  international version of Yahoo!Finance.

Answer 2

My guess is that your computer crashing had nothing to do with the change in format.  On or about March 25, Yahoo made an "improvement" in the format of Finance and that is most likely the reason for your problem.  As you have found out, this "improvement" is a big mistake.  I know of no one that prefers it and know of no one who understands why they replaced a perfectly good and universally acceptable foprmat with this inferior one.

There is a work-around.  Go to the Yahoo Finance Home Page; at the bottom of the page you will find a number of country links. Click on one of them, e.g.,  Singapore or Canada, and it will take you to Finance in that country which still uses the previous format.  I've been using Canada  for a week and it's just like it was before they made this terrible change.  Let's hope they realize how unpopular this change has been and that they change it back.

Answer 3

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. . .

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.

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."

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