[GNC] Shortcuts and Sorts

[Peter West]

About auto-fill:

I have half a dozen categories for my grocery shopping, plus cleaning and household utensils that I can buy at the same supermarkets. I shop frequently, and I don’t buy big amounts, so there is a lot of variability. Putting the supermarket name into the initial Memo field brings up the last split, which is always wrong. So now, I just put a dummy value in there, and start with the total credit amount and account. If I’m disciplined about my descriptions, I get the split account filled out for me, which is handy, and I then just have to change the amount if necessary.

Some time after entering the credit, I can correct the memo entry. For example, my local supermarket is “Coles F.G.”. I just enter “Coles”, and I can go back, inset a space after “Coles”, and “F.G.” is auto-filled. Tab, Enter.

So, it’s a mixed blessing, but overall a time saver.

Peter

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Peter West
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> On 24 Sep 2020, at 4:48 am, Walter Busch <webusch at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Have two questions.
> 
> In Quicken I could sort by the reconcile column, but don’t find that in this program.
> 
> In Quicken I could stop autofill (shortcuts) I don’t write checks or entries for the same amount all the time.  It is stupid to think that I go to the grocery store and I buy something for exactly the same price each time.  Or that my electric bill is the same every month.  It takes me more time to correct the autofilled amounts.  How do I turn this off?  I can’t find that in the help.
> 
> Otherwise, I really like the program over Quicken.  I was using an older version of it and they now want to charge every year for personal use if I update the program.  I don’t want to pay money each year for any program for personal use.  One time, yes.
> 
> Thank you for the program and please help.  If these aren’t options, can they be in a future release?
> Walt
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