Delete voided transactions

[adardis at gmail.com]

Unvoiding my old Quicken voids worked for me today (2.2.9). 

On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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