Mass delete of zero split lines?

[JimR]

On 07/09/2010 06:07 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> On Fri, July 9, 2010 5:33 pm, JimR wrote:
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>> On 07/09/2010 11:57 AM, Colin Law wrote:
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>>> On 9 July 2010 15:39, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu>   wrote:
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>>>> Yes.  On my paycheck I sometimes have zero split lines because,
>>>> e.g. some paychecks I get a reimbursement and some I don't.  I like
>>>> always having the split there so I can just go down the paystub and
>>>> enter all the correct numbers.
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> [snip]
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>> Of course, if anybody is counting these votes, mine is against keeping
>> the nil line splits.
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> Luckily we're not..
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>> Those who want to retain them for purposes such as above could put in a
>> 0.01 value (or whatever is the smallest denomination of your currency).
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> .. and this would throw off all your balances.  I *DON'T* have 0.01 going
> into my paycheck for reimbursement.  It's 0.00 this week.  But next week
> it will be 52.23.  And LAST week it was 623.12.  But THIS week it's 0.00.
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> If I put in 0.01, it would throw off my Assets:Reimbursible Expenses
> Account, and also I'd have to balance that 0.01 from somewhere else, so
> I'd have to add yet ANOTHER split.
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> I certainly don't object to a "Clean out zero-amount splits" function from
> the context menu that you could use to quickly remove them from a
> transaction, but no, it certainly should NOT remove a zero-amount split
> automatically.
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>> 73 de Jim, KD1YV
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> -derek
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Yes, but it seems far easier for you to delete 1 line (or adjust it) 
that for me to have to delete 4 or 5 lines.  Especially from my 
perspective :-)

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73 de Jim, KD1YV