[GNC] Editing a Budget - "from this period onwards"

[Adrien Monteleone]

I get that, but that's the best we have at the moment.

Your hands don't have to leave the keyboard though, so it isn't terribly 
slow.

Unfortunately, I don't think the Budget screen is implemented as a 
'spreadsheet' though it has rows and columns of cells. That is probably 
why the functionality is not built-in.

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/31/21 8:40 AM, Jim Passmore wrote:
> Thanks, Adrien, but those functions are only of limited help.
> 
> All periods  (and estimate) can be useful *at the beginning* of a year.  I
> usually copy a budget when starting a new year, then use the "all periods"
> function to fill December numbers into Jan-Dec of the new year where they
> have changed from the previous January.
> 
> However, let's say you get a raise in April.  Your budget then changes
> (e.g., in the US) for your income, federal taxes, state taxes, social
> security, Medicare.   You don't want to overwrite the first 3 months
> history, which would mess up year-end reporting, so 5 times you have to
> type the new budget number, then copy to clipboard, followed by 8 reps of
> mouse click and ctrl-v into May-Dec.  That's a total of 5 copy and 40 paste
> operations.  (I also have other withholdings that change with income, such
> as retirement--that makes the number even larger!)
> 
> Either a "fill to right" or "copy column" would cut down on the
> copy/paste.  Wish I could offer to help implement this, but I have zero
> experience with C/C++.
>