Remove a zero valued split

[David J. Bakeman]

On 02/23/2013 02:43 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> 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
I never tried tabbing off the end that works Thanks.
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> David C
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