On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote:
Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a
transaction? If so how should one do it?
If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in
the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts. Should I get
the list there? I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there
seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes
doesn't.
I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux.
I will be using the formal terms "debit" and "credit" as the supposedly
more user friendly terms vary with the sort of account and this matter
does not depend on that.
You cannot change the account associated with a debit or a credit of a
transaction while IN that account. Since there will always be at least
two accounts associated with a transaction it will always be possible to
go to that transaction in another account and you would then have a list
to change THIS account there. Do it that way until ....
If you have become familiar with entering "splits" you will have learned
to enter transactions in the "journal view". That's how we all entered
transactions in the old days of pen and ink on paper bookkeeping. We
then had to manually post these entries to the ledger accounts. Gnucash
does the "posting" automatically when you enter transactions this way.
If you are viewing the transaction in "journal view" you CAN change any
of the accounts using the drop down list, even the one you were in when
you entered journal view (split)
Michael D Novack
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There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality
of the grave.
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