[novice level] how to accomplish this scenario

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Tue Jun 12 21:16:09 EDT 2012


David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> On 6/11/2012 4:11 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Running GC 2.4.10 on win7
>>
>> I've not got much out of the help guide under help menu... not to say
>> it isn't a good one, but it starts right out with telling of concepts
>> that are above my paygrade.
>>
>> I'm posting here in the hope that some experienced users can tell me
>> before I spend as much more time as I have already painstakingly
>> inserting lots of detailed info, only to find I'm either not
>> understanding what should happen or expecting things that are not in
>> the cards.
>>
>> My needs are very fairly simple, just home budgeting type use.
>> Maybe a little beyond simple due to having my finance setup strung out
>> between 3-4 banks.
>>
>> 1)
>> I hoped to be able after inserting all income and all bills to be able
>> to see a presentation showing a months worth of activity including due
>> dates and etc. that I could just glance at and know when to do various
>> actions that will allow me to avoid those nasty $34 dollar overdrafts.
>>
>> It would be a serious plus if dates that are close at hand would show
>> up in some attention getting fashion
>>
>> Another big plus if I can print out such a display from GC.
>>
>> 2) My finances are scattered across at least 3 banks.  Since there are
>> good reasons why that is the case, I hoped to centralize all that in
>> GC so that the display mentioned above would contain info from all
>> banks.
>>
>> 3)
>> I hoped to be able to do my online banking work through GC.
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>>
>> Can any of you experienced folks tell me if the above things can be
>> done with GC, if I keep pounding away at the help files, online
>> resources and bugging this group?


> If you know any youngsters who are computer-savvy, ask one of them to
> help you.

Such astonishingly good help and in such short order.  Thank you so
much for taking so much time and effort for a detailed and very
`useful' reply.




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