I wasn't putting anything in the original bucket field. If you don't do that first it makes things act weird in the first split transaction.
On Jan 8, 7:46 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:32 PM, CelloMatt wrote: > > > When I click 'Create Split' the cursor appears in the 'Amount' column > > below. I fill in the first amount then press tab. This causes the > > cursor to erase the amount I just entered and go into the 'Bucket' > > field of that same transaction. It's a small thing, but shouldn't the > > cursor first appear in the bucket column (especially if it's just > > going to end up erasing the amount you enter anyways)? > > > Maybe there is something about the behavior I'm missing that will make > > it make sense. I do a lot of split deposits, so I've been using this > > a lot. > > HiMatt, > > What amount are you entering? We haven't updated our video tutorial > for splits so it looks old but the concept is the same: > > http://nothirst.com/tutorials/MoneyWell-SplittingTransactions/ > > The basics are that you create a transaction with the full amount of > your receipt and assign a bucket to that transaction. Then you create > a split from that and start to change the amounts in the split to the > smaller amounts of your child transactions. > > Let me know if this helps. > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > [email protected] > No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
