Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread R Losey
I agree. I let GnuCash create a chart of accounts and then modify it to meet my needs. On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:21 PM David Carlson wrote: > Maf showed you how to start to create a single account. > > If you want to create an entire chart of accounts click File > New and > select the option

Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 1/23/23 2:33 PM, flywire wrote: that isn't the latest, nor official documentation. No, it's not but it is the version I recommend. Feedback on how it compares with the official version would be useful. The official documentation should always be the recommendation. It is actively

Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread David Cousens
Ann, I you are getting the window with the Accounts tab (it is the default until you open an account register) click on it then right click on whichever of the top level accounts you wish to create the account under and slect New Account and the account creation dialogue will come up. You can edit

[GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread flywire
If you do the "Putting It All Together" sections as you go through the guide you will learn the basics and have a sample set of books. It starts with: https://gnucash-docs-rst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/C/ch_basics.html#putting-it-all-together > that isn't the latest, nor official

Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ann, that isn't the latest, nor official documentation. For that, see https://gnucash.org/docs.phtml (the Documentation link from the left-hand menu under either Downloads or Support) There is the 'Help' and the 'Tutorial & Concepts Guide'. Both should be accessible from the Help menu when

Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread David Carlson
Maf showed you how to start to create a single account. If you want to create an entire chart of accounts click File > New and select the option to create New Account Hierarchy Setup You might want to try this more than once because it will then give you a lot of choices for different

Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 23 January 2023 17:10:51 GMT Ann Bowes wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to set up a simple manual checking account for a small farm > business. I've down-loaded the gnucash program to my laptop (linux > zorin OS), and have tried to open new accounts, but am completely > stumped as to

[GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

2023-01-23 Thread Ann Bowes
Hi folks, I'm trying to set up a simple manual checking account for a small farm business.  I've down-loaded the gnucash program to my laptop (linux zorin OS), and have tried to open new accounts, but am completely stumped as to how to do this.  I've read through the tutorial (at