finding 'names' from transactions

[John Ralls]

On May 3, 2013, at 2:41 PM, "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:

> On 05/03/2013 02:02 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On May 3, 2013, at 1:33 PM, "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> when I enter a transaction, under description I can enter a payee, if it is a check.  Is this name stored somewhere?  I tried vendors, employees and another (forget) reports to thy to find.  Is there a way to see 'all'
>>> in one of those lists?  If I hit find with nothing in the search field I get the reprimand that I need something in the field, but there is no 'all' button.  Looking through transactions to find those written to an entity is very helpful.
>> If you're using the basic ledger screen, which is the default, then you're most
>> likely entering it in the "Description" field, which happens also to be the default
>> in the Edit>Find dialog box.
>> 
>> Vendors, Customers, and Employees are part of the Business subsystem and don't
>> have much to do with the regular accounting registers.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> 
> that did it.  now, I seemed to have closed the window that I had open.  How do I open an account, like cash-bank to enter checks.

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