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[Andy Pastuszak]

Ok, went to File->Properties and changed the setting.  Now everything seems
to be back to where it should be.  Thank you everyone for your help with
this!

Andy

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On Monday 23 February 2015 09:49:16 Alex Aycinena wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > > Cc:
> > > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:30 +0100
> > > Subject: Re: Reconciliation
> > >
> > > On Monday 23 February 2015 10:58:52 Andy Pastuszak wrote:
> > > > New file has Num and Action.  Sounds like it's time to do an
> > > > export
> > > > and import.
> > >
> > > This behavior is controlled by an option under the General tab in
> > > the
> > > Preferences:
> > > "Set book option on new files to use split "action" field for "Num"
> > > field in registers/reports"
> > >
> > > I don't know how that got enabled when you created your current
> > > file.
> > > But from the help on this option it will only be evaluated when
> > > creating a new book. So yes you'll have to restart if you want to
> > > change the behaviour. And make sure the option is disabled when you
> > > create your new book.
> > >
> > > Geert
> >
> > I don't believe this is exactly correct. When you create a new book
> > you are given the choice to set this option. It defaults to 'not
> > selected', so Andy could have set it, either intentionally or not,
> > when he created the book. It is also possible to go and change the
> > setting any time afterwards, So Andy may have set it later, also,
> > either intentionally or not. (If you do change it later, you will end
> > up with transactions that have the 'number' in one field before the
> > change and in another field after the change. There is a warning
> > about this in the help description.) Depending on how this option is
> > set, the register shows a 'T-num' field on the second line or not.
> > That is why some of you are seeing it and some of you are not (you
> > don't have that option set).
> >
> Thanks for the clarification Alex.
>
> I completely missed the fact that the current book's setting is found in
> File->Properties. I
> only saw the option under Edit->Preferences->General and drew the wrong
> conclusions from
> that.
>
> Geert
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