Delete voided transactions

[Dennis Powless]

No, this goes back to the quicken days.  When I would void a check I
had written and never sent (say you mess it up and write another one)
and I would void that check out in the register.  So, it wouldn't keep
showing up as missing etc...  I entered it as a void in the place you
would enter the person's name.  I would not assign it a category in
quicken.  The issue comes up when I imported this data into GC.  I
think GC felt it was a voided transaction (which it was) but not quite
the same as in GC.

I do understand it would mess with the books to void a transaction
that has amounts attached to it, this is not the case.

I am unable to do anything with these transactions in GC, unvoiding or
unclearing a transaction does not work with voids apparently.

Thanks,

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David G. Hamblen
<dhamblen at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 11:45 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dennis Powless<claven123 at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> When using quicken I voided transactions for various reasons.   After
>>> import to GC, I now would like to delete them.  I'm cleaning up
>>> accounts and consolidating and rearranging them.  However, GC will not
>>> allow me to delete those transactions.  They are marked with a v in
>>> the reconcile area.
>>
>> I do not believe you can delete a voided transaction.  The point of
>> voiding is that you wanted to keep the transaction "on the books" but
>> mark it voided!  So I'm not surprised that this is the case.
>>
>> One thing you can try:  click in the reconciled column to see if you can
>> "unvoid" the transaction.  However I don't know if this will actually
>> work.
>>
> That won't work, but you can click on Transactions/Unvoid transaction.  Then
> you can do whatever you want with it.  BTW, voiding a transaction in a
> closed year messes up the closing balances.  One should probably enter a
> reversing transaction on the date that you realized a transaction should be
> voided (not necessarily the original transaction date).
>
>
>
>
>>> Dennis
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>>
>> -derek
>>
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