Editing Stock or Security Transactions

[Stein Erik Berget]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:11:56 +0100, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:30 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net>  
> wrote:

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>> 2.  It is possible for a split transaction to contain lines referring to
>> more than one security account.  If there are purchases or sales of more
>> than one account/security, each account/security line must be edited
>> from within it's own security account window.  This could mean doing a
>> lot of Saves and jumps to edit one transaction.  One must remember to
>> look at the Tab near the top of the window to see which account window
>> you are in, because there is no indication of "home" vs "other" accounts
>> inside the transaction.  If you try to edit a line that is associated to
>> a different security account you will not get a warning, and you may or
>> may not notice that your edits did not "stick."   In fact, some attempts
>> to edit even appear to "stick" but then get discarded when the
>> transaction is "Saved." This is not documented.
>>
>
> Honestly, having more than one security in one transaction has never  
> come up for me.

If there was a 'stock swap' (or what it's called) would this not be the  
way to do it?

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Stein Erik