[GNC] noobie question about split transactions

[timothyscully at yahoo.com]

I am a long-term Quicken user who is trying to kick the habit and move to
gnucash. I'm on Windows 11.

 

I tried migrating my 10+ years of data. Thank you for the excellent
migration tools. I was able to enter a few simple transactions but then when
I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
transaction with line items for every line item in the credit card bill,
after I had spent many laborious minutes entering 50 or 60 line items I
accidentally hit enter and all of my work was deleted.

 

That was incredibly disheartening. Is there any way that I can reconfigure
the program so that when I make a mistake like that instead of deleting all
of the work I've put in for the last half hour or more, I can see a warning
or error dialog that will give me a chance to correct my error without
having to reenter all of the data? I have been spoiled by Quicken being very
tolerant of human error. 

 

I attempted to search the archive but wasn't able to find a search term that
turned up an answer to my question. Please pardon me if this is already been
asked and answered.

 

And my thanks to all of the people who have obviously put great effort into
developing and maintaining the software.

 

Tim