Using 'return' or 'enter' key instead of tab...
Ken G.
beachkid at insightbb.com
Tue Sep 1 11:20:49 EDT 2009
Correct Doug, I am used to using Quicken using my Enter key to move
between fields. That is why I asked here on mailing list.
It is not really a problem but I guess I am so used to being set in my
ways. :-)
Ken
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> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:32:36 +1000
> From: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Using 'return' or 'enter' key instead of tab...
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> Under Quicken, I use Tab. If I hit Enter there, I get a dialog: "Do you want
> to use the Enter key to move between fields?" or similar. I usually say No,
> but the choice is there. Enter can be used in my wife's Australian made
> package as well, but sometimes it does the wrong thing as well. For example,
> in the "check number" field, the next number is prompted. Hitting Enter
> selects it and enters it in the transaction; hitting Tab moves you on without
> using it, for non-check transactions. You can use the right arrow as well,
> instead of Tab.
>
> If you wanted to have that, it would need to be coded in. To my thinking,
> that is the way GnuCash is. Every program has its own procedures.
>
> In answer to yours, Colin, according to Help, if you uncheck that box, Enter
> moves you down one row. I think that while that is checked, Enter will move
> to a blank transaction from anywhere. If the current transaction is
> incomplete, a query should pop about what to do with it. Perhaps that is why
> it is a problem for Ken.
>
> Doug.
>
>
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