On 6/5/2019 3:45 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
If you did that, then you didn't properly remove the other splits. You need to go into each cell and manually remove the data, then tab out.. Then use the arrow key to move up and the split will disappear. Continue until all the extra splits are gone.
Not a practical "how to do" answer but it might be a good time to mention that "how to correct" in general involves the question "how formal is your process"?
In the old days, pen and ink on paper, erroneous transactions were never removed. They were offset (enter the reverse transaction) and then the correct transaction entered. In other words, preserving an audit trail that there was an error that was corrected << the description fields would explain/refer to the erroneous transaction >>
THIS PROCESS is still what is done by those of us required to maintain formal books. SOME accounting software will require it, not allow existing transactions to be deleted/altered. Might be required in some jurisdictions. There has been discussion in this forum that gnucash being unable to prevent deletion/alteration is a fault << that is, not offering this option -- in effect, open source software cannot provide this sort of security as those with programming ability could use an altered version of the program to defeat it >>
HOWEVER -- most of us using gnucash are not following the formal process. WE will simply delete/alter erroneous transactions.
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