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>>>>> "cs" == Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:
cs> On Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2002 02:08, Shayne Lennox wrote:
[...]
>> not being able to clear a split easily,
cs> Err... can you explain more what you mean by this one?
I'm not sure what Shayne meant, but I have a (minor) complaint there;
the default display mode is one-line per transaction and if you are
entering a new transaction, GnuCash's memorized transactions will
automatically fill in the splits from the last time you made a similar
entry. Sometimes that's not what you want and there is no quick way
to just clear the whole split and start over.
Sort-of related is that in the default one-line-per-transaction mode,
the comments fields get duplicated from a previous transaction even
though they may be completely inappropriate. Yes, I know I can change
the view to automatically show me that information, but (1) I'd like
GnuCash to remember that setting the next time I open the file, and
(2) I'd like that auto-split feature to not require me to enter the
amounts in the splits area when there is only one item in the "split".
Both of the above two paragraphs are Quicken-like behavior and, like
Shayne, I abandoned Quicken in favor of GnuCash. My reasons were that
(1) Quicken managed to scramble some of our accounts and lost
transactions that had been reconciled 4 years previously(!) and (2)
the newer versions of Quicken would no longer run on my wife's Mac
under OS 8.1 and her Mac could not be reliably upgraded to 8.5. It
was easier to convert to GnuCash and get my wife to access it via VNC
from her Mac. Using VNC also meant that we no longer had a conflict
over access to her computer when updating our accounts.
roland
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