Entering Credit Card Charges/Payments

[David Carlson]

On 12/12/2013 4:30 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Uncheck Edit->Preferences->Accounts->"Use Formal Accounting Labels"
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
>
> On Wed 11 December 13 15:34:22 gnunam wrote:
>> I have accounts created for my credit cards as follows:
>>
>> Liabilities -> Current Liabilities -> Credit Cards Payable -> Visa
>>
>> The 'Visa' account, and the 'Credit Cards Payable' Parent Accounts are
>> created under the 'Credit Card' type.
>> The 'Liabilities' and the 'Current Liabilities' accounts are created under
>> the 'Liabilities' type.
>>
>> My question is that the column labels for both, the 'Visa' and 'Credit Cards
>> Payable' accounts are *not* 'Payments' and 'Charges,' but show as 'Tot
>> Debit' and 'Tot Credit.'
>>
>> Why???
>>
>> Please help me get this corrected so that the appropriate columns appear for
>> credit cards.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
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If you are referring to the fact that the amount column headings have
the prefix 'Tot' , that is because you do not have the curser in a split
row of a transaction. The headings change as the curser moves from one
type of row to another type of row.

David C