[GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/13/2019 10:23 PM, D via gnucash-user wrote:
> This.
> 
> On April 14, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> I understand you don’t care for the official documentation, but how much frustration have you endured by not reading it and just trying to plow through? How many times have you asked for help or for understanding that would have been avoided by reading the manual?
> 
> Help Manual (https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help, or p.56 in the PDF)
> Chapter 6. Common Transaction Operations
> 6.2. Enter Transaction via register
> 
> "Note
> When working on transactions in GnuCash, be aware that the Enter key and the Tab key behave differently, and perform different actions.
> 
> The Enter key moves to the first field of the next split, regardless of which field you are in. If there is no next split, proceeds to the next transaction. In any case, Enter finishes the transaction edit, and any imbalance is posted to Imbalance-CUR, where CUR is the currency of the transaction.
> 
> The Tab key moves to the next field in the current split. If it's the last field, moves to the next split, creating a new one if there isn't one. If the split is blank, the Tab key finishes the transaction and posts any imbalance to Imbalance-CUR, as above."
> 
> The rest of the section proceeds to explain, step by step, field by field, what to enter and how to do it unambiguously.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On 4/14/19 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>
>> That explains a lot. I had been pressing Enter on every block.

Hi Adrian,

I found a slick way of switching every thing around.

I set view to Auto Split Ledge, then I mouse clicked in the cell I 
wanted to change and added a minus sign to each, then moved on to the 
next line.  One hand on the mouse and one hand on the minus sign.
Worked beautifully!

After I was all done, I noticed the "Imbalanced USD" was still zero.
Boy did I not understand about tabs and mouse clicks.  Thank you!

You know GnuCash is way more complicated than I wanted, but with your
help, I seemed to hae been able to dumb it down to the point where I
can actually use it.  I think it may actually work out.  Thank you!

-T