[GNC] In Praise of Excellent Features

[NoobAlice]

Hello All!


No questions, just joy!  Thank you to all the devs and to everyone who 
gives advice in the mailing list!

I have been happily using GnuCash for years.  Today I was poking through 
the menus to see if I could find an Expand All/Collapse All option for 
the accounts tree, when I saw other options I had never previously noticed.


New treats:

Edit > Cascade Account Properties
For an account and all its subaccounts, you can change all the colors, 
set placeholder status, and/or set hidden status.

Edit > Renumber Subaccounts
WOW!  This has been the bane of my existence when working with 
QuickBooks-using clients who have never numbered their charts of 
accounts, as the external program we use requires numbered accounts. 
This looks so efficient!  I am accustomed to manually changing account 
numbers one. by. one.

Actions > Rename Page
This looks so convenient.  You can even rename the Accounts page!


And my favorite options that are good friends:

Variables
You can use variables in scheduled transactions.  For example, if you 
are entering a paycheck and you like to split out taxes and deductions, 
you can just fill in the blank for "grosswages" and have GnuCash compute 
all the line items.
Credit Salary		grosswages
Debit Income Tax	grosswages*0.10	### 10%
Debit Retirement	grosswages*0.05	### 5%
Debit Local Tax		3.98		### assuming fixed amount
Debit Health Insurance	100.00		### assuming fixed amount
Debit Checking Acct	grosswages*(1-0.15)-3.98-100	### net of above

Spreadsheets
One can just copy a GnuCash report and paste into a spreadsheet for 
further manipulation, which is great for generating external reports for 
non-coders such as myself.

Custom Shortcuts
Two simple edits to ~/.local/share/gnucash/accelerator-map, and I have 
shortcuts to open the Saved Reports list with Ctrl+A and turn 
double-line view on/off with Ctrl+D!!!
;
; Double-line register on/off
(gtk_accel_path 
"<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleDoubleLineAction" 
"<Primary>d")
;
; Saved reports configuration list
(gtk_accel_path 
"<Actions>/gnc-plugin-menu-additions-actions/AdditionsAction/4d3dcdc8890b11df99dd94cddfd72085Action" 
  "<Primary>a")