My suggestion in this scenario is to *begin* the description with the variable text. That way, you type fewer characters. For example, you could have "Dividends - AAPL" or you could have "AAPL - Dividends" The latter requires only a couple of characters' typing to get the unique entry.?.
-------- Original Message -------- From: "Stephen M. Butler" <kg...@arrl.net> Sent: Sun Jul 12 23:54:17 EDT 2020 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Prevent register from auto-duplicating transactions? Use a slightly different description. (store name + 4) for the 4 line split and (store name + 1) for the single line split. On 7/12/20 12:27 PM, Stan Brown wrote: > Example: In a trip to the supermarket I buy food, wine, flowers, and > cleaning supplies. To record that, I enter a transaction in GC, in the > register for my credit card: > Description = (store name) > Click the Split button. > In each of four splits, Memo = details of what I bought, Account = > (account for that type of expense), Debit = (amount) > In the fifth split, Memo = blank, Account = (credit card), credit = (total) > All of that is fine. (I don't divide that purchase into four > transactions, because I want the credit amount to match what will be > shown on my credit-card statement.) > > But here's the problem. On the next trip to that store, I buy only food. > What I want to do, in the account register for my credit card, is enter > Description = (store name), Transfer = "Groceries", Credit = (amount). > But as soon as I enter the store name in description, GC creates five > splits that duplicate that previous shopping trip. I have to click Split > and manually delete three splits, one at a time. > > Is there some way to tell GC "don't finish this one transaction for me"? > > Or, almost as good, when it does do the auto-complete, is there some way > to tell it "not this time, thank you", and have it delete all of what it > helpfully created for me?? > -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.