Transaction details

[Leonard Broese van Groenou]

Jeff, thank you for the suggestion. To make sure I am doing it right, here is a screenshot of an Amazon purchase of a Jamie Oliver cookbook:


Have I done it correctly? By the way, despite having ticked the register preferences "auto-split ledger" and "double line mode" I do not see any difference when inputing data. If I want to see the example as above, I have to press the split button on the main menu bar. Is it possible that the preferences have not been saved? Thanks again, Leonard


On 27 Mar 2014, at 19:17, Jeff Earickson wrote:

> You probably want to use auto-split ledger under preferences->Register defaults.  Then you can subdivide purchases and write into the big blank line (to the right of the check number, left of the dollars) what it is.  That is your memo field.
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:34 PM, LeonardBVG <lvbroese at mac.com> wrote:
> I have just switched from Quicken to GnuCash. The switch was remarkebly easy.
> I have posted my first transactions and so far so good. However I noted one
> detail where I am not sure I am doing it correctly. Example:
> GnuCash
> Account name: Current Account
> Description: Walmart
> Transfer: Household Expenses
> 
> Quicken
> Account name: Current Account
> Payee: Walmart
> Category: Household Expenses
> Memo:
> 
> What I miss is a memo field to say, for example: wine and food. I am used to
> annotate my transactions and I do not understand how to do that.
> Many thanks for your help, Leonard
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