Where is gnucash register?

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Charles Day wrote:
> 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
> 2.2.1QIF 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 I've copied and marginally edited some of this for the FAQ in the 
wiki. 
wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash
It is many years since I dropped Quicken, so would you look at the FAQ and 
comment?
If you don't want to edit it yourself, private mail me.

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