[GNC] New Autocomplete in 2025

[Julie Watson]

I understand what you mean, and thank you.  My descriptions are more
standardized, though.

I'd never tried to turn off  autocomplete until today.     OMG, you can't.
 You cannot turn off autocomplete.

This is the first bad thing I've encountered with GnuCash.   Now, I do not
use it for AP/AR or Payroll at all.  I also don't export anything to a
QuickBooks file.   Hell, I copy and paste from GnuCash into Excel,  and
don't export to it.    I've used GnuCash to categorize my transactions and
reconcile my accounts since 2009.  It's great for that!!!!  But the new
features of autocomplete are not great; I do not need to see a list of
every transaction that could possibly match what I'm typing.

Yergh.

Best,
Julie Watson

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 12:25 PM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Julie, I don't know of a way to  turn it off, but maybe you could get
> creative with the Payee? I've started to do things like "Amazon-Tools",
> "Amazon-Personal" and "Amazon-refund" -- more typing to find a unique
> match, but easier to find what I want. It doesn't lessen the list, until
> there is more typing, unfortunately.
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 8:13 PM Julie Watson <julierwatson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I enjoyed the autocomplete function in GnuCash prior to 2025. Autocomplete
>> would show just one transaction, the last transaction in that account, and
>> that's it. Now, it finds every transaction in that account that could
>> possibly be related to what I am typing. It's very overwhelming, and
>> sometimes Autocomplete goes with one of it's suggestions instead of what
>> I'm typing.
>>
>> My question is can I go back to having autocomplete just show one
>> transaction and not a whole bunch?
>>
>> Best,
>> Julie Watson
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