newbie questions

[Maf. King]

On Friday 28 Oct 2005 15:42, Doug Madory (Santiago, Chile) wrote:
> Sorry for the basic questions. No much in the documentation or archives for
> these:
>
> 1) After creating an account, how can you change the initial balance? I
> don't see any field anywhere to allow you do to this. Seems like a simple
> thing, but the only time I've been asked for initial balance is when
> creating an account.
>

Create a transaction to Equity:Opening Balances to set the account's opening 
balance. Hint. Make the date of the transaction the day before your financial 
year start. It will give neater reports later.

>
>
> 2) How do you reclassify a ledger entry to be for another account? Do you
> have to delete it and recreate it manually? For example, when I got Gnucash
> going initially I had my wife's and my pay deposits going into a generic
> account "Salary". Later I decided to break it up by pay source. I ended up
> doing it manually because there didn't seem to be a way to easily change an
> entry to be for another account.
>
>

Just edit the transfer account for each transaction. eg, change Salary to 
Salary:MySalary

>
> 3) Anyone else notice the print-to-file for ps and pdf prints the charts
> off the top of the page?
>

Yep - known bug in the gnome-1 print routines.  Will go away when the gnome-2 
port is done.  for now, I export the report to html and use firefox to print 
out.  Others have other ways.

Cheers, and good luck with your gnucash adventure....

Maf.