Nice!!  I use duplicate to create my known transactions for the year.....
that's what I'm doing now.... pay the mortgage every month, the water,
internet, etc.

Idk how to use the AP/AR services in GnuCash..... and I don't even know
what they are actually called in GnuCash 🤣🤣🤣

But I do have my current checking, and then everything for the rest of the
year is in another account called Looking Forward...... like: Pay
attention,  Property Taxes are Due!!!

But for the Autocomplete, I've been using Esc in the past few days.

Best,
Julie Watson


On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 11:06 AM Dale Alspach <[email protected]> wrote:

> I use Duplicate frequently to avoid autocomplete. This works fairly well
> for routine purchases, e.g., groceries and dining out. Combining Duplicate
> along with some of the other strategies that have been suggested helps.
> Dale
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 5:40 AM Julie Watson <[email protected]>
> 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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