Where is gnucash register?

[Ian Lewis]

Henry,

If you are keeping a checkbook then wouldn't you have an account in gnucash
for your checking account? Just open up that account register and use it
like your checkbook and make transfers to any account you need to.

Ian

2008/1/26, Henry Fallon <henryf61 at gmail.com>:
>
> Charles (and Josh),
>
> Thanks for your informative replies. This experience makes me appreciate
> the
> genius of Quicken. It just looks like a checkbook. I'm not sure how to
> describe gnucash but it looks entirely too professional for my simple
> requirements in keeping my personal checkbook. For example, when I post a
> batch of checks to the register, I want to use a single register since my
> checks will be written to random accounts. I don't want to have to open up
> an account for each individual check and then close each account before
> they
> stretch way beyond the screen's boundaries.
>
> Disclaimer: The tutorial and help files didn't come with my copy of
> gnucash.
> I have since discovered them on the web and realize I have to do some
> homework before using gnucash again.
>
> Let me try to make a few constructive comments:
> --If memory serves me, the import screen was one of the first ones
> displayed
> when I opened gnucash. If I should have been setting up accounts prior to
> import, then why not warn me of that fact and give me the option to do so?
> Hint: maybe this would be a good fix for the next release.
> --Thanks for warning be about import bugs. I got maybe a hundred duplicate
> entries on my import and quickly decided to ignore them. The duplicates
> did
> not exist in Quicken and the final balance in GnuCash was correct. It
> wouldn't have been if the duplicates were real.
> --I will definitely wait for version 2.2.4 and go back to Quicken
> meanwhile.
>
> Before returning, I have a question about downloads from my bank but let
> me
> first search the forum to see if it has been answered. If not, I will
> start
> a new thread.
>
> Thanks again. I am impressed by the speed and quality of the answers.
>
> Henry Fallon
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 7:39 PM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 25, 2008 2:10 PM, henrymds <henryf61 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I can't find the register. I imported a single QIF file from Quicken
> in
> > > Windows XP to gnucash 2.2.1 in Ubuntu 7.10. Gnucash recognizes all my
> > > categories/accounts. A report summary has the correct final balance. A
> > > transaction report appears to have all the transactions listed but I
> > can't
> > > find the register anywhere.
> > > File > Open > Open is supposed to open an account tree somehow but all
> > it
> > > does is list the backups of my file.
> >
> > I know... the GnuCash GUI is brutally confusing for first-time users
> > coming from Quicken, particularly if you don't create GnuCash accounts
> > *before* importing the QIF file.  If you create the GnuCash accounts
> first,
> > it's a lot easier. Plus, there are a number of important bugs in the
> GnuCash
> > 2.2.1 QIF importer, so I'd really suggest that you start over and import
> > your QIF using GnuCash 2.2.3.  If you can wait for 2.2.4, so much the
> > better, because I've patched a number of QIF importer bugs even since
> the
> > release of 2.2.3. Hopefully these will get released in 2.2.4.
> >
> > But starting from where you are already... Go to File -> New -> New
> > Accounts Page. You'll see a list of accounts. Since you're a Quicken
> user,
> > you probably don't want to see income and expense accounts in the list,
> at
> > least initially, so go to View -> Filter By... and uncheck Income and
> > Expense. Now click on any of those accounts and you'll bring up that
> > account's register. If the register comes up blank (like shown in bug
> > 502649 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502649>) then click
> > anywhere in the register and the transactions will magically appear.
> > Hopefully someone can fix this soon, but for now its just an annoyance.
> >
> > To the general GnuCash community: Why is the option to display a new
> > accounts page under the File menu anyway? It has nothing to do with
> files or
> > printing. The View menu seems more appropriate.
> >
> > -Charles
> >
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > henrymds
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