How does this Mailing List Work?

[Edward Doolittle]

Try modifying the payee/description slightly for different categories of
purchases, e.g.

Dollar General Candy
Dollar General Housewares
Dollar General Fashion

If you routinely purchase multiple categories of items at Dollar General
you have at least three options:

1) Create additional templates like
Dollar General Candy Housewares
Dollar General Candy Fashion
Dollar General Fashion Housewares
Dollar General Candy Fashion Housewares

Of course the number of combinations grows exponentially with the number of
categories.

2) Group items at the cash register and ask the cashier for two or more
transactions/receipts.

3) (Probably best) Create a template transaction with blank or zero amounts
in most of your common expense categories. Then the next time you use
Dollar General in the description, your template will pop up with blanks in
most of the expense categories. You can add amounts where appropriate and
leave other categories blank, and then the next time you type Dollar
General you'll be in a similar situation. Just don't remove splits from the
transaction, just zero or blank the amount; that will save the categories
for next time.

On 10 February 2015 at 06:14, David <chrstdvd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I am set up now because I do not get the emails anymore.
> Somewhere I
> found a "thing" that gives me an email address to send my posts to, I think
> that is how I got this post on here.
>
> In the meantime I gave up and just started Goggling about how to enter a
> split into the register.  I stumbled onto a post on here from 2009 Where
> John Ralls answered a question where a person was as confused as bad as I
> was.  The way he said to do it is way different than what is described in
> the Tutorial and Concepts guide.  I had to start a new file, name it
> practice and follow his instructions about 20 times before I finally got
> it.
>
> This morning I made 2 short Screen videos of how to do it in case I forget.
> One is how to adjust a memorized split and the other one is how to just do
> a
> split from scratch. I was getting really frustrated with the way Gnu uses
> the last entered transaction of the payee as a template. I but lots from
> Dollar General and the Commissary and the splits always have different
> accounts and amounts.  So I just type the Dollar General in and use the
> mouse to choose one of the accounts and then put the total purchase amount
> in the credit column of the checking account and THEN hit the split button.
> Then the split screen opens and is easy to finish off.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the replies and advice.
>
>
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-- 
Edward Doolittle
Associate Professor of Mathematics
First Nations University of Canada
1 First Nations Way, Regina SK S4S 7K2

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