check auto-numbering

[Gary Bickford]

Kevin Finn wrote:

>      I looked into it a little bit and it had to do with the next value of the
> number cell which holds the check number.  Somehow as my records were loaded,
> check 535 would be the last one loaded (even after 701), so that the blank
> transaction at the bottom of the register would have it's next value
> initialized to 536 rather than to 701.  I haven't had much luck investigating
> further, though.

Quicken has this same behavior - Quicken 98 on the Mac, at least, will use (usually)
the value of the last check entered, even if it's out of sequence.  This is probably
the correct behavior, actually - what if you accidentally use a set of checks out of
sequence, then go back and continue?  If it automatically used the highest number
used, you'd have to correct each check as you enter it.  However, I think Quicken
does remember across sessions so when you restart Quicken it does remember the last
one used.

However, the original problem cited was picking up the check number from a transfer
- this is clearly not correct.