Quickfill Issues

[Doug Laidlaw]

That is a good question.  I was just going to pop up again and say that you 
may find that the download has changed your last memorised "Taco" to "TACO".  
Then the trick that works for me is Fred's one of adding a space at the end.

Quicken  has a list of memorised transactions that you can edit. In addition 
it has an auto-complete function for transactions that are not memorised (I 
think - most of them finish up being added to the list, and you can have two or 
more almost identical transactions memorised.)  I can't recall if editing the 
memorised transaction will edit all the transactions that use it - I doubt it.  
The only programs I have seen with that capability are genealogy programs, for 
sources or place names.  There is no such list in GnuCash.  It may be possible 
to use Find & Replace on the data file in a text editor - it is an XML file,  
compressed with gzip - but I would be very nervous about doing that.

Let's see if Derek and the others have any ideas.

Doug.

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:22:52 pm Wayne Bird wrote:
> Is there a way to get to the list of all the Payees, or Description as
> GnuCash calls that field?  Let's say that I've been entering transactions
> with a payee of "Wade".  I find out that it's not "Wade" but "Wayne". 
> Rather than changing every transaction individually, I would like to go
> into my list of payees and change "Wade" to "Wayne" and this will
> automatically change all my transactions that have "Wade" to "Wayne".  Any
> way to do this?
>
> > From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: Quickfill Issues
> > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:06:36 +1000
> > CC: wrbird at hotmail.com
> >
> > I think that you and the others are talking about two different things.
> >
> > Fred and Derek are talking about memorised transactions, and their ideas
> > work there.  But like you, all my bank's QIFs are in upper case, and they
> > get imported as they are, including a long string of transaction IDs. 
> > This isn't exactly quickfill; it is more like importing what is there.
> >
> > As I see it, you need either to edit the QIF (or OFX file, or whatever
> > you use) first, or to import it as it stands, then edit the description
> > afterwards.  If you do the latter, your quickfills should work.  Delete
> > (or overwrite) the downloaded description and start typing "Taco" as you
> > did last time.
> >
> > I have tried MSMoney only briefly, but Quicken will import downloaded
> > transactions and remember a description you chose before.  AFAIK, GnuCash
> > can't do that.
> >
> > Or have I got it completely wrong -- again?
> >
> > Doug.
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:38:06 am wrbird wrote:
> > > This suggestion still didn't work.  I've looked around for some type of
> > > setting and couldn't find anything obvious.  Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > > wrbird wrote:
> > > > Thank you Derek and Fred for your answers.  This will definitely
> > > > help!
> > > >
> > > > Wayne
> > > >
> > > > wrbird wrote:
> > > >> All,
> > > >>
> > > >> I just started using Gnucash.  I was a long time user of MSMoney.  I
> > > >> imported transactions from my bank and just want to change the
> > > >> description, for example, from "TACO BELL" to "Taco Bell", however
> > > >> quickfill doesn't allow me to modify this to lower case, it just
> > > >> always autofills the description.
> > > >>
> > > >> Does anyone know how to change this behavior?  Also does anyone know
> > > >> how I can create shortcut keys for description input.  For example,
> > > >> can I create a shortcut "tb" and that will automatically insert
> > > >> "Taco Bell"?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks for your help.
> > > >>
> > > >> Wayne
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