Re: [GNC] Automatic payments and interest during reconciliation?

2022-10-28 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Re: The post, and Adrian's reply the next day, both show up here: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-August/thread.html Oops, sorry, somehow I missed the reply to my previous post. Thanks for replying again. -PaulK ___

[GNC] Automatic payments and interest during reconciliation?

2022-10-27 Thread Paul Kinzelman
My apologies for posing this again, but when I posted it a couple of months ago, nobody responded. On some of my charge card accounts, when I reconcile the account with the statement, a pop-up happens that automatically allows me to record the payment. For those accounts, the pop-up happens

[GNC] reconciling an account and paying the balance

2022-08-26 Thread Paul Kinzelman
On some of my charge card accounts, when I reconcile the account with the statement, a pop-up happens that automatically allows me to record the payment. For those accounts, the pop-up happens every time I reconcile those accounts. On other charge card accounts, when I reconcile them, nothing

[GNC] Transaction Paste problem?

2022-07-01 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Ledger View, the transaction still looks OK. So to make it work, I have to go to View Transaction Journal, do the paste and enter, then go back to Basic Ledger View -Paul Kinzelman ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Report question

2022-02-26 Thread Paul Kinzelman
trying to accomplish. Then people on the list could help you solve the problem, rather than half answer your half-stated question. David *From:* Paul Kinzelman *Sent:* Sat Feb 26 11:56:27 EST 2022 *To:* Tommy Trussell *Cc

Re: [GNC] Report question

2022-02-26 Thread Paul Kinzelman
, but that does not export the transactions of the transaction report which is what I wanted to do. On 2/25/2022 6:08 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 9:27 AM Paul Kinzelman wrote: Do you mean Account Report? But when I go to File | Export, it asks me which accounts again

Re: [GNC] Report question

2022-02-25 Thread Paul Kinzelman
$(102.11) (102.11)n 1 On 2/24/2022 1:09 PM, David Carlson wrote: That procedure generates a mess, in my opinion. Wouldn't it be simpler to just run a register report? On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:57 PM Paul Kinzelman wrote: If I do a Search

[GNC] Report question

2022-02-24 Thread Paul Kinzelman
If I do a Search for the transactions I want, and then Export Active Register, I can look at the CSV in a spreadsheet, but both accounts of the transaction appear in the same column so the sum of the amount column is always zero. How do I export just one account's amount of each transaction

Re: [GNC] reconcile problem?

2022-02-23 Thread Paul Kinzelman
tly was edited to reside in account 'B', GnuCash may not give the proper warning and un-reconcile that split line.  I think this only happens in older releases. On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:34 AM Paul Kinzelman wrote: That's a good question and I think that could be an explanat

Re: [GNC] reconcile problem?

2022-02-23 Thread Paul Kinzelman
tipped me over the edge to post about it. On 2/23/2022 8:29 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Are you possibly opening up a backup file when you start GnuCash? -derek On Wed, February 23, 2022 10:23 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote: The latter is certainly possible, but it's strange that this started with gnucash

Re: [GNC] reconcile problem?

2022-02-23 Thread Paul Kinzelman
my post. On 2/23/2022 7:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: HI, On Wed, February 23, 2022 9:35 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote: I always balance my accounts every month. I used to use Quicken before they went to a rental model. Credit cards always balanced every month for me. I've been using GC for several

[GNC] reconcile problem?

2022-02-23 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I always balance my accounts every month. I used to use Quicken before they went to a rental model. Credit cards always balanced every month for me. I've been using GC for several years now, and notice that I sometimes can't get cards to balance, I have to add an imbalance amount. Then this

Re: [GNC] exporting search?

2022-02-19 Thread Paul Kinzelman
h.org/wiki/Contributing_to_GnuCash Regards Geoff = On 20/02/2022 10:03 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote: Thank you! I see now how I can do that, but it's not all that convenient to do, seems like it would be something that lots of people would want to do. Copy/paste from HTML

Re: [GNC] exporting search?

2022-02-19 Thread Paul Kinzelman
ort Options let you tweak which columns are displayed. From there, you can either File / Export / Report, or just select all and copy /paste. The export format is HTML, but it pastes into Microsoft Excel in a usable format. Regards Geoff = On 20/02/2022 6:49 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote

[GNC] exporting search?

2022-02-19 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Is there some way to export search results? I was trying to get a list of medical expenses for the past year and I didn't see any easy way to do this, is there a good way to do it? I tried search but I couldn't export it or total the columns. It seems like I should be able to export this list

Re: [GNC] Search results and Notes

2021-11-12 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Thank you. The ledger options are grayed out, I thought the double-line item was grayed out too. Glad to see I was wrong. On 11/12/2021 2:04 PM, john wrote: On Nov 12, 2021, at 12:22 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote: When I do a search, the transaction 'Notes' line does not seem to appear under

[GNC] Search results and Notes

2021-11-12 Thread Paul Kinzelman
When I do a search, the transaction 'Notes' line does not seem to appear under the search results tab. Is there a way to see and/or edit the Notes item in search? TIA! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] changing accounts?

2021-11-10 Thread Paul Kinzelman
ch for the offending transactions, putting them all in a separate register, copy the new account designation, and paste it into each transaction at the appropriate point before pressing enter to commit them away. David ---- *F

[GNC] changing accounts?

2021-11-10 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Is there some way to change all the entries for a set of items in an account to be charged to one account to charge them all to another account? For instance, if I have a monthly charge from XYZ that I charge to account ABC, and I have a bunch of them in my Checking account, is there a way to

Re: [GNC] editing memorized transactions

2021-10-29 Thread Paul Kinzelman
to reappear on a regular basis. On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 12:19 PM Paul Kinzelman wrote: Wow, I had no idea. I thought it kept track of them in a table someplace (like Quicken does), but a quick test seems to show what you said is how it works. Thanks a bunch! On 10/29/2021 10

Re: [GNC] editing memorized transactions

2021-10-29 Thread Paul Kinzelman
the most recent with the same description. Hence it is automatically updated with the most recent transaction having that description. At least that has been my observation. On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 09:41 Paul Kinzelman wrote: Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear, I'm not concerned about a single

Re: [GNC] editing memorized transactions

2021-10-29 Thread Paul Kinzelman
AM, Steve Butler wrote: Yes. Just type over what you want.  Or click on a split (line) and then click on the delete menu item. On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 09:08 Paul Kinzelman wrote: ...or whatever gnucash calls them. When you start typing in a transaction, it fills out one that you've

[GNC] editing memorized transactions

2021-10-29 Thread Paul Kinzelman
...or whatever gnucash calls them. When you start typing in a transaction, it fills out one that you've used in the past. Is there some way to edit or delete entries in this list? TIA! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] Finding sales tax liability

2021-07-11 Thread Paul Kinzelman
lect 'Interest', right? Maybe you had included "interest income" in your sales and need to deselect it. I assume you mean under the Report you suggested? The Income and GST Statement? Yes, I deselected it and it seems to work. Thanks! On Sat, 10 Jul 2021, 10:36 am Paul Kinz

Re: [GNC] Finding sales tax liability

2021-07-09 Thread Paul Kinzelman
? It seemed to work just fine previously, was the capability removed for some reason? Thanks! -Paul Kinzelman On 7/9/2021 4:46 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: It's likely the Income and GST statement report can be used for your purposes. On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, 10:47 pm Paul Kinzelman, <mailto:p...@kinzelman.

[GNC] Finding sales tax liability

2021-07-06 Thread Paul Kinzelman
This is for a business that sells stuff and keeps track of sales tax. At the end of the reporting period, I need a report of the sales tax owed to the state. With previous versions it was easy, there was a pull-down item for getting a report of the sales tax but I can't remember where exactly it

[GNC] How to Find... account

2021-05-11 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I've read thru the documentation about find and have a couple of questions to which I can't find the answers in the docs... Every time I go invoke Find, it comes up with the Refine current search option set, not New search, and I'm wondering why this is if I haven't done a previous search since

Re: [GNC] Cut/paste between databases

2021-05-09 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii It can't work, the account GUIDs from the one book won't be valid in the other book. Regards, John Ralls On May 6, 2021, at 3:31 AM, Liz wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2021 13:40:13 -0600 Paul Kinzelman wrote: I'm running gnucash 4.5 I've got two gnucash dat

[GNC] Cut/paste between databases

2021-05-06 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I'm running gnucash 4.5 I've got two gnucash databases (personal and business) and I accidentally entered a charge into one instead of the other. So I tried cut from one and paste into the other and it didn't work. When I pasted, I got only the Description got pasted, and I filled in the rest

Re: [GNC] How to get invoices to appear in the Reports|Tax schedule report?

2021-02-11 Thread Paul Kinzelman
it to work, so I upgraded to 4.4 before I posted the question and maybe it did work but I didn't notice, and by that time I was confused. Perhaps there was a bug in this area in 4.2? On 2/11/2021 11:36 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, On Thu, February 11, 2021 1:28 pm, Paul Kinzelman wrote: I'm running GC 4.4

[GNC] How to get invoices to appear in the Reports|Tax schedule report?

2021-02-11 Thread Paul Kinzelman
it in Accounts:Receiveable for Accrual basis? And if so, shouldn't AccountsReceivable be able to be designated to appear in my Schedule C under Income? TIA! -Paul Kinzelman, Peralta NM ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

[GNC] When reconciling an account, the proper interest account should come up

2019-10-07 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I've asked this a couple of times over the last year but never got an answer to it, but I've stumbled over the answer, so for others who might be having problems with it, this is how it works. I think it's a bug that ought to be fixed sometime, but at least I can get it to work. The issue is

[GNC] followup about 'how to remember an interest account'

2019-08-04 Thread Paul Kinzelman
er when replying. Regards, Adrien On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Paul Kinzelman wrote: Sorry, I should have included this more specific info... In the 'Payment Information" window, the "Payment From" and "Reconcile Account" are always initially the same account which

[GNC] followup about 'how to remember an interest account'

2019-08-04 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Sorry, I should have included this more specific info... In the 'Payment Information" window, the "Payment From" and "Reconcile Account" are always initially the same account which is not very useful. The previous month I reconciled the same account and under "Payment From"  I selected the

[GNC] how to remember an interest account?

2019-08-04 Thread Paul Kinzelman
When I reconcile a charge card, GC remembers the account I pay the card out of, and in the payment window (after reconciliation), it selects this account which is quite convenient. However, when I reconcile, say a savings account, the window that pops up to account for the interest does not

Re: [GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

2019-07-02 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Thanks for your replies, also to David T, your way of moving a transaction had not occurred to me before. I'll try that next time. I figured the copy/paste would work more easily, hadn't occurred to me that it was for going between different files. I'm just curious where GC stashes the

Re: [GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

2019-07-02 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to remember that. I've been using gnucash for almost a year and I'd never seen it before tho I don't cut/paste whole transactions very often so I don't know when it'll come up again. I have done transaction copy/paste successfully in the past, so it is

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 196, Issue 5

2019-07-02 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to remember that. I've been using gnucash for almost a year and I'd never seen it before tho I don't cut/paste whole transactions very often so I don't know when it'll come up again. I have done transaction copy/paste successfully in the past, so it is

Re: [GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Kinzelman
? Perhaps the clipboard is not picking up the ?cut? but GnuCash is still removing the data. Anytime I have a pasting problem I always test in a plain text editor to see if that is the issue. Regards, Adrien On Jul 1, 2019, at 3:30 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote: I just tried cutting a transaction in one

[GNC] reconcile - remembering the proper account for interest

2019-01-07 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I posted this a month or 2 ago, didn't see any response, my apologies if somebody responded. I'm now using 3.4 Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) When I reconcile an interest-bearing bank account, the interest window pops up, but it doesn't remember the account to which i posted the interest the

[GNC] report filtering

2018-12-20 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I'm using GC3.3 and trying to get a report out. I used somebody's advice and put in a text string in the 'Number' field for certain transactions of interest, say "xyz". How do I create a report that contains just those transactions that I labeled as xyz in the number field? I tried Reports |

[GNC] remembering the interest account

2018-12-07 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I'm running V3.3 on Windows 10. Every time I balance a savings account with interest, the interest pop-up does not remember the account for the interest income from the previous month. Is there a way to have it remember this so I don't have to specify it every month? TIA!

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread Paul Kinzelman
manually but finally gave up because that merely moved the manual intervention, didn't eliminate them. Best thing to do is be aware of the issue and just try it and see what happens, then post your results here. On 11/2/2018 9:17 AM, D wrote: On November 2, 2018, at 5:59 PM, Paul Kinzelman

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-10-26 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Not ideal of course, but if you install GC on all the computers you want to run on, you could just put the data on the flash drive and plug it in to whatever computer you want and have already installed GC and then start GC. On 10/26/2018 2:27 PM, aeneas wrote: Very nice reply! It looks like

Re: [GNC] Chromebooks

2018-10-10 Thread Paul Kinzelman
I wanted to suggest to those of you working on this to keep track of what you did and produce a 'howto' when you get done to help others who want to accomplish this. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] can Gnucash provide a list of unreconciled cheques?

2018-09-30 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Couldn't you just start a reconciliation on that account even if you don't have a statement? I'm kind of a novice with GC, but it seems to me you could get a list that way. On 9/30/2018 12:28 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Sep 30, 2018, at 10:42 AM, Barnabooth wrote: There are times (particularly

Re: [GNC] Another sort field like 'Class' in Quicken?

2018-09-16 Thread Paul Kinzelman
September 16, 2018 10:34:53 AM Paul Kinzelman wrote: Quicken normally specifies transactions into Categories for filtering for reports and such. But it also has a nice feature to allow a user to sort on a second field called 'Class' which can be specified for each transaction. Gnucash has what

[GNC] Another sort field like 'Class' in Quicken?

2018-09-16 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Quicken normally specifies transactions into Categories for filtering for reports and such. But it also has a nice feature to allow a user to sort on a second field called 'Class' which can be specified for each transaction. Gnucash has what appears to be an unused field which could be used for

[GNC] test msg

2018-09-14 Thread Paul Kinzelman
please ignore ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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