Using Downloads of Accounts

[Robert Smits]

I'm finding very little information at my local credit union about downloading 
my account activity, (although I've sent a request for more info), although 
when I'm interactively online, it says I can download accounts activity in 
the following formats:

Download to Quicken
Download to Quickbooks
Download to Microsoft Money
Download to Simply Accounting
Download to Comma Delimited Text
Download to PDF

With these options, which one would give me the least amount of trouble to 
import into Gnucash?

Is there a recommended url for documentation on how to accomplish this?

Lastly, it occurs to me that downloading account activity will result in all 
my cheques only being noticed by the credit union when they clear, not when I 
write them. Do I stop entering my cheques in Gnucash and only use the banking 
data? It seems to me if i do that I can miss cheques that take a long time to 
clear. 

How do the rest of you deal with this?

Bob
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Bob Smits, bob at rsmits.ca