Enter trans. in register problem

[David Carlson]

On 5/20/2013 12:14 PM, amenditman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am experiencing a strange problem.
>
> When I am entering a transaction in an account journal it is duplicating the
> entry with an opposite charge. 
> Essentially, cancelling my entry.
>
> Example 
>
> 01/27/2013   POS   Newegg     Assets Cash on Hand    Spend 52.99  <ENTER>
>
> When I press the enter key, the transaction appears right in the register as
> I have entered it.
> But another transaction also shows up at the same time.
>
> 01/27/2013   POS  Newegg  Assets Cash on Hand   Receive 52.99.
>
> Which if I delete the second, the first is also deleted.
>
> Obviously, I have accidentally hit some magic key combo without knowing it.
> How do I get this to go back to the default settings?
> I have looked all over the Preferences for the account and for GnuCash, no
> luck finding anything which sounds like this.
> What do you even call this weird behavior?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Bob P.
>
>
>
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You are seeing double entry bookkeeping in action.  You need to assign
the second entry to another account such as Expense:Computer.  Read the
fine manual.

David C