Remove a zero valued split

[David Carlson]

On 2/23/2013 4:09 PM, David J. Bakeman wrote:
> On 02/23/2013 01:42 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 23 February 2013 21:37, Ian Konen <iankonen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If I save a transaction with a split that I later decide I want to remove
>>> (could be fixing an imbalance or just changing my mind about how to
>>> categorize purchase with mixed expenses) I cannot figure out how to remove
>>> the zeroed out split, other than making a new transaction and deleting the
>>> old one.  Am I missing something or is there a good reason one shouldn't
>>> remove a split from a transaction?  To be clear, the zero value splits
>>> aren't screwing any numbers up...they just make the books look more
>>> cluttered.
>> If you just delete the contents of every field on a split line then
>> the split will disappear.
> I have not found this to be the case with 2.4.11 anyway.  After you get
> rid of all of the fields then you can right click on the split and
> select delete transaction and this will get rid of the split.  I found
> this when I was going through getting rid of Imbalances.  I found
> transactions in the imbalance account with no associated amount because
> the imbalance had already been fixed but deleting the transaction did
> completely get rid of the split line.
>> Colin
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>>


Just set the highlight on the action field of the line that you want to
get rid of then tab delete repeatedly until the highlight goes to the
next line.  then press enter.  Every box needs to be blank in that
line.  That's the way I always do it.  Works in 2.4.11

David C