Changing category of reconciled transction

Rich Stanton richstanton at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 15:19:58 EST 2011


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 19:27:58 -0000
> > Rich Stanton <richstanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I accidentally put the wrong category for a transaction, and
> >> reconciled it. Now it seems that I cannot change the category -
> >> clicking on the category doesn't bring up the list of categories, and
> >> I cannot overtype it.  Is there a way to change the category of a
> >> reconciled transaction?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > Somewhere is a setting which you can change to allow this to happen.
> > If you try to change a reconciled transaction there is a dialog box
> > (yes / no) which stops you from rushing into it. It offers also "Don't
> > ask me again this session" and "Don't ask me again"
> > You have carefully chosen not to edit a reconciled transaction, decided
> > that it is a bad idea, ticked "don't ask me again" and now you need to
> > check through a pile of preference options to find it.
> > I'm sure the next correspondent will know where.
>
> Another option is to expand the transaction in Split-mode so you see the
> individual splits, and then you might be able to change the other
> account split directly.  Then hit the <enter> key to commit the change
> directly.
>
>
Using the autosplit mode worked great thanks.

Rich


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