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

> Message: 10
> 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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