What is the blue line all about?

[John Morris]

GnuCash has another very useful feature. One can set the number of months in the past that should be assumed to be in the previous year. This feature allows me to enter 12-12 today and get 2016-12-12. This is very helpful when I find an old receipt that was not entered last month or the month before. It's also helpful if I get busy around the end of the month and don't get around to keying receipts until the next month.

  On my Mac running GnuCash 2.6.13, this setting is in Preferences on the GnuCash menu: On the Date/Time tab, look for Date Completion and select the sliding 12-month window and then set a number in the text field.

Best,
John

> On Jan 1, 2017, at 4:22 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
> If you type in a date "1" you get the first day of the current month. If you type in a date and month (lets make it 12/12 so no one gets confused) you get the 12th day of the 12th month of the current year.
> 
> The blue line alerted you to a problem, which you then sorted out. However, sometimes you put something in which disappears into the past, because the date isn't right. Then you need to search that account using the description or the amount to locate the transaction which needs editing.