help with categories & strange boxes in Gnucash

[Thomas Peterson]

Per the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, Gnucash does not have categories. It
has Accounts.

In GnuCash, accounts are also used to categorize money you receive or spend,
> even though these are not physical accounts that receive statements. As we
> will cover more in Chapter 3, *Accounts* <ch03.html>, income type accounts
> are used to categorize money received (like a paycheck), and expense type
> accounts are used to categorize money spent (for pizza, to pay a bill, etc.)
> These accounts function much like categories in some other financial
> programs, with a few advantages discussed in Chapter 3, *Accounts*<ch03.html>
> .
>
New accounts can be created via File->New->New Account...

- Tom

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:59 PM, <erytting at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Davey B <the.lounge at btconnect.com>:
>
> > Venstra, Elizabeth J wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just downloaded Gnucash (2.2.3) on the recommendation of a friend.
> >>  My first question is: Is there a way to customize the spending
> >> categories?  I have looked in every menu multiple times and I cannot
> >> find anything that looks like this, nor can I find an answer in the
> >> help document.
> >>
> > I'm using 2.2.1 and with the icons set to display there are some
> > little counting houses with New, Edit & Delete under them or you can
> > highlight an account and opposite click then take it from there :)
> >
>
> It seems to me that you're talking about icons on the main accounts
> page, which (as far as I can tell) allow me to edit the main settings
> of an account.  But I see nothing in the Edit Account window that
> allows me to customize the categories.  If it's there and I'm missing
> it, please elaborate further!
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
>
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