[GNC] Partial use of reconciliation

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 4/24/25 11:36, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> I've never used reconciliation because I get real-time transactions from
> all my credit cards and my bank, so if there's something wrong I deal
> with it before the statement arrives.
>
> But recently I realized there's one _piece_ of reconciliation I'd like
> to use in my bank accounts: cleared (c) versus not cleared (n). I think
> it would be useful to get a list of uncleared checks, deposits, and
> transfers from time to time which I can do with a filter.
>
> But ... I've got over 7 years of data in my book, so clearing all those
> items individually would be quite a job. I know I can filter by date as
> well as not-cleared status, but I wonder if there's any shortcut to
> clearing a lot of transactions at once.
>
> For instance, it looks like I can treat everything before this year as a
> single statement and just bulk-reconcile it; that would leave me only
> this year's transactions (about 100 of them) to mark as cleared. Any
> reason not to take that approach, or is there a better way?
When I import a downloaded file (at least with OFX) it will mark the 
transaction as cleared as it loads new entries AND
it will mark as cleared any matched entries.

Are you able to download a file to import and then ensure that that only 
the Match/Clear flags are marked for the import process?

That will keep you from having to manually mark all those transactions 
as cleared viz the GUI.