[GNC] deleting empty items in a split

[David Carlson]

If you take a moment while editing a multi-line transaction to be sure
there is no residual balance at the bottom with no account assigned before
hitting Enter, all is good.

A trick I found recently is to highlight the unassigned value at the
bottom, then (Ctrl)Copy, move the curser to the line where the correction
should go, then (Ctrl)Paste.  The unassigned value will disappear.  You may
need to include a plus or minus sign if there is already a value present.
Note that if there are values on both sides, GnuCash reduces them to a
single positive value.  Easier than using a minus sign!



On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM William Prescott <will at theprescotts.com>
wrote:

> It happens to me once in a while as well. However, it is easy to delete
> the line. If your cursor is in the imbalance line, clicking on the delete
> button will delete the line. If your cursor is on the first line of an
> entry, the delete button deletes the whole transaction.
>
> Best wishes,
> Will
>
> On 25 Feb 2025, at 15:41, Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
>
> When you get down to the final amount, you can also change the imbalance
> account to the proper account for the remaining amount
>
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
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> To: neo at neoscenes.net <neo at neoscenes.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] deleting empty items in a split
>
> Hello.
>
> I have had this problem as well -- usually when I am entering split data
> and forget to replace the Imbalance or Orphan line with the correct
> account. You can right-click over any unwanted account and select "Delete
> Split" and it removes only that entry; the option "Remove Other Splits"
> deletes all of the splits.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM John Hopkins <neo at neoscenes.net> wrote:
>
> > halló folk s--
> >
> > I am having some issues when I am populating a split entry, a line item
> > appears
> > as "Imbalance-USD". Once I finish assigning the rest of the various
> > values/line
> > items in the split, that line item stays even with a zero value. These
> > accumulate in the account "Imbalance-USD". Same with "Orphan-USD" entries
> > (as
> > part of a split).
> >
> > It's quite useless, and just makes everything more complicated. I've read
> > quite
> > a bit online and cannot find a fix for deleting those line items. It's
> > easy to
> > delete the whole split, but ...
> >
> > And advice would be welcom!
> >
> > Takk!
> >
> > Jon
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