Beginning Gnucash

[Russell Mercer]

Karen,

The account options are accessible for each account.  For example, if you
are entering transactions in the account:

Assets
  Bank Accounts
    Bank of America
      Checking

Right click on the Checking Account.  Select "Edit Account".  In the dialog
that comes up, about halfway down, there will be a checkbox that is titled
"Placeholder".  If this has a check in it, remove the check.  You will then
be able to edit transactions in this account.  In the same way, if you want
the parent account, like "Bank of America", or "Bank Accounts", to be
locked to entering transactions, you would right click on each of those,
edit the accounts and check the "Placeholder" box, thus locking them.

To be clear, the placeholder tag applies only to the specific account, it
does not propagate down to child accounts.

Hope this helps.

Russell

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Karen Linde <klinde at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I cannot begin entering transactions.  It says to go to Account Options
> and unclick Placeholder.
>
> I have gone to Preferences and Properties...unable to find Account
> Options.  The Placeholder box I did see is not checked.
>
> How to I take this out of Read Only?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Karen Linde
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