Hello, Thank you for the response. You are correct that that was the original question. As far as I know, no one has yet offered a solution. Someone did offer an alternative approach, but it would still be helpful for me if there is a way to copy the entire column without doing it one entry at a time, as you described.
Regards, Patrick On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:52 PM Jim Passmore <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think the original question has been addressed--did I miss the > answer? I understood the question to be "is there a way to copy an entire > column of budget values?" Whether it's a month at a time, in a 12 month > period, or two weeks at a time in a quarter, if you have several expense > account parents, with sub-accounts underneath, it takes a while to copy the > entire column one entry at a time [by memory it's arrow down, return, type > value, return...and repeat for each account]. Surely there should be a way > to duplicate a column? > > -- > > *Jim Passmore* > > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:09 PM Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Andre, >> >> Thanks for the advice. This definitely gives me some possible alternatives >> to consider. >> >> I am not able to find a page that gives the etiquette rules for this >> mailing list. Is top-posting preferred on this list? I noticed that some >> people do and some don't. >> >> Thanks, >> Patrick >> >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:24 AM Andre Powell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Patrick, >> > The method that I use for budgeting is well "old-fashioned". My salary >> is >> > paid every fifteen days and my wife once a month, hence the two-week >> setup, >> > and the quarterly view because in my prior career we managed our P&Ls >> > monthly but with quarterly plans so mentally I am kind of used to that >> way >> > of thinking (or maybe I don't want to scroll so much). >> > >> > When income comes in is when I actually use the budget to plan where the >> > money is going to go (a mixture of Dave Ramsey and YNAB). I use the >> > Bills/Invoice feature to keep track of the bills that need to be paid, >> but >> > they don't get paid until they are planned for. >> > >> > For monitoring purposes, I use the Budget Report to do exactly that. You >> > can set it up to see a period before and after your current account >> period >> > (mine being set at a quarter), which will show your carryover. I am >> always >> > striving for a balanced budget (move/spend less money to make sure that >> the >> > budget is balanced. But in theory, you could create a second report >> with a >> > longer view (perhaps yearly) to see your overall progress with the >> period >> > before. >> > >> > I hope this helps. >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:30 AM Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Andre, >> >> >> >> Thank you for the response. For each two-week period within the >> quarter, >> >> did you just have to copy the budget entries from each column to the >> next? >> >> That is what I would like to avoid, if possible. >> >> >> >> I would like to use one budget so that it is easy to see carryover from >> >> one budget period to the next. If I create a new budget for each >> quarter, I >> >> don't know of a way to get cumulative surplus/deficit for each budget >> >> category from the previous quarter. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 4:15 AM Andre Powell <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Patrick, >> >>> I made a template and under the Budget menu just make a duplicate/copy >> >>> as needed (my accounting period is quarterly and the budgets are >> every two >> >>> weeks). >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 10:34 PM Patrick <[email protected] wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Hello, >> >>>> >> >>>> I recently started using GnuCash. Is there a way to copy one month's >> >>>> budget >> >>>> to the next month? I have a budget with a large number of entries, >> and >> >>>> copying each entry individually is somewhat cumbersome. >> >>>> >> >>>> Any help is appeciated. >> >>>> >> >>>> Regards, >> >>>> Patrick >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >> >>>> [email protected] >> >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> >>>> ----- >> >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >>>> >> >>> >> > >> > -- >> > Andre >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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