[GNC] New Autocomplete in 2025

[Jerry Criswell (JC)]

You do know that when you start the autocomplete field, you don't have 
to start at the beginning of the string you expect to end up with don't 
you? Example: When I enter a transaction to Liabilities/JC Mastercard, I 
start typing Master,  Somewhere around "ter" the desired entry pops up 
by itself.

JC


On 1/19/26 5:00 PM, Julie Watson wrote:
> 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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