Account register read-only

[Wm]

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:55:11 
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Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>

>On 13 January 2015 at 21:27, Eldon Fredericks <freder at purdue.edu> 
>wrote:
>> I’m brand new so will likely need lots of help. I get error message:
>>
>> This account register is readonly. Then tells me to open the account 
>options and turn off the placeholder checkbox.
>>
>> Where is the account options????

Click on the Accounts tab so that you see list of all the accounts.
Click on the one that is giving the problem and click on the icon in
the toolbar with a bank(?) and a pen on it, it shows Edit Account when
you hover over it.  There you should see a checkbox for Placeholder.
Did you set that when you created the account though?  Which account
are you having the problem with?

As a follow up to what Colin says the most obvious thing to do is to 
close all open registers that are not an actual account.  So if you have 
an Assets account with sub accounts and the Assets account is a place 
holder you should close the Assets a/c

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