put zeros in transactions?

[Derek Atkins]

"John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> writes:

> I make a series of opening balance transactions (5 of them for all of
> the asset/liability/equity accounts) at the beginning of my fiscal
> year.  This also relates to payroll, as if there is no deduction for
> state income tax, as an example, I would like a zero there, indicating
> that I did that on purpose, as opposed to forgetting to enter it.
>
> I went through preferences, but I could not find an entry.  This is
> similar to a spreadsheet when you want zeros to show or not.  Can the
> zeros be displayed in a transaction?

There's no way for GnuCash to know whether a Split amount/value is 0 on
purpose or by accident (because it defaults to 0).  So either it's all
0.00 or all blank.  There's no way for GnuCash to know that some should
be 0.00 and some blank.

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-derek

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