Getting started with a budget

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Embarrassing for me to have to be asking this. I thought it would be 
dead simple but apparently not.

I want to create a budget. I understand about setting the periods, 
specifying which accounts (if I can get that far), and that GnuCash is 
supposed to be able to produce an "estimate" budget based upon 
transactions for the past period (and I would then edit as desired).

But how, pray tell, do I associate a particular set of books with the 
budget? I thought it was going to be similar to when I ask GnuCash to 
"open" books and I get presented with directories I have previously said 
contain books and I can select a file (which is a set of books) to be 
the one to be opened. But when I try to "open budget" that's not the 
sort of thing  that happens at all. It doesn't ask me "what" do I want 
to open. I can't see how the "estimate" part could possibly work if 
GnuCash doesn't know which set of books to associate.

I am missing something, right?

Michael

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