Memorised transactions

[Liz]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:08:08 +0800
Ros Bowyer <goldfirestone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a relative newbie to Gnucash, having previously used Quicken
> software for many years.  In Quicken I had my setup defaulted to
> memorise transaction categories but I can't find this feature in
> Gnucash. I see that others have asked about turning this feature off
> so clearly it is available.  Could someone please point me in the
> right direction?
> 
> Currently the payee is memorised and autofills but the category
> defaults to 'unspecified' rather than defaulting to whatever category
> was previously used.  It would save me an enormous amount of time to
> have it default to the last used category. Sorry for posting such a
> basic question - your help would be much appreciated,
> 
> Cheers,
> Ros :)
> _______________________________________________

It does default to the last used category for that payee. That's not
the last one you entered, but the chronologically last one.
If you are entering old transactions, make a new one for the future to
the correct account. You can use a value of zero and then overwrite
this value when entering transactions.