Manually entering historic records

[Colin Law]

On 14 January 2018 at 12:22, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 January 2018 at 09:59, Gregory L. Davis <gd at centurytel.net> wrote:
>> Trevor:
>>
>> It sounds to me like you have to increase the number of days for "Read only"
>> transactions.  Try clicking on the file menu, then preferences. In the
>> "Accounts" tab, increase "Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red
>> line):".  You can set the number of days to to something like 800 to include
>> all of 2016.
>
> Is that a new feature? I don't see it in 2.6.17.
> I think it is Edit > Preferences rather than File, but I still don't have it.

Sorry, you are right, it is File > Preferences, and it is there.

Colin

>
> Colin
>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> greg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been following the user group for years but still not started the move
>> from 20yrs of MSmoney... all looks too hard with an MSM file with records
>> back to 1997.
>> I thought I could test the water with a new business and associated bank
>> account that started in 2016.I've been managing this with a spreadsheet as
>> very few transactions.
>> So I set up a business set of accounts and tried entering manually, the
>> historic records... I'm immediately stumped. It does not let me enter past
>> dates. Clearly I'm going about this in the wrong way.Advice
>> appreciated.Trevor
>>
>>
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>> Gregory L. Davis
>> gd at centurytel.net
>>
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