Hotkeys and user interface

[Colin Law]

On 3 September 2012 22:17, Algeorge <agm.alistairgg at mailnull.com> wrote:
>
> John Ralls-2 wrote
>>
>> On Sep 2, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Algeorge <agm.alistairgg@> wrote:
>> You might find View>Autosplit Mode useful. It automatically opens the
>> split view for the active transaction.
>>
>> Yes, that's correct. Computing the percentage is an interesting approach,
>> but I can't off the top of my head think of many cases where it would be
>> correct.
>>
>>
>> Hmm. I haven't experienced that behavior at all. When I keep typing after
>> the autofill, it switches to overtype mode and keeps filling in. Only
>> typing a right-arrow key accepts the autofill as-is and leaves one in the
>> Description field to accept more typing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>
> Hi John.
> In reply the order of above:
> Perfect; I had not noticed Autosplit option <embarrassed>
>
> Split memorised percentages are used by default in Quicken and Skrooge so
> there must be a very valid reason for remembering not only transaction
> details, but also the transaction percentages.
> For example, your Power Bill may have a business allocation and a private
> allocation. The split transaction when working properly calculates the
> percentages of the Total entered in the register, thus alleviating
> additional user input unless they want to change the percentages.
> In practical terms, I use split percentages for about 1/4 of my register
> input. To edit each split is excessively slow.

Just in case you did not realise, it is possible to enter a formula
into a cell.  So there is no need to manually calculate the amounts.
So for example if a power bill were £124 then one can enter 123*.25
and 123*.75 into the splits.

Colin