You do know that when you start the autocomplete field, you don't have
to start at the beginning of the string you expect to end up with don't
you? Example: When I enter a transaction to Liabilities/JC Mastercard, I
start typing Master, Somewhere around "ter" the desired entry pops up
by itself.
JC
On 1/19/26 5:00 PM, Julie Watson wrote:
I understand what you mean, and thank you. My descriptions are more
standardized, though.
I'd never tried to turn off autocomplete until today. OMG, you can't.
You cannot turn off autocomplete.
This is the first bad thing I've encountered with GnuCash. Now, I do not
use it for AP/AR or Payroll at all. I also don't export anything to a
QuickBooks file. Hell, I copy and paste from GnuCash into Excel, and
don't export to it. I've used GnuCash to categorize my transactions and
reconcile my accounts since 2009. It's great for that!!!! But the new
features of autocomplete are not great; I do not need to see a list of
every transaction that could possibly match what I'm typing.
Yergh.
Best,
Julie Watson
On Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 12:25 PM R Losey<[email protected]> wrote:
Julie, I don't know of a way to turn it off, but maybe you could get
creative with the Payee? I've started to do things like "Amazon-Tools",
"Amazon-Personal" and "Amazon-refund" -- more typing to find a unique
match, but easier to find what I want. It doesn't lessen the list, until
there is more typing, unfortunately.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 8:13 PM Julie Watson<[email protected]>
wrote:
I enjoyed the autocomplete function in GnuCash prior to 2025. Autocomplete
would show just one transaction, the last transaction in that account, and
that's it. Now, it finds every transaction in that account that could
possibly be related to what I am typing. It's very overwhelming, and
sometimes Autocomplete goes with one of it's suggestions instead of what
I'm typing.
My question is can I go back to having autocomplete just show one
transaction and not a whole bunch?
Best,
Julie Watson
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