Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Clark Jones
First, I want to thank everyone who responded with suggestions about my problems getting GnuCash running under Mandrake 7.0 (586). Secondly, I was briefly worried about "accuracy" issues when I saw the discussion about fractional cents with respect to stock purchases, but I did manage to verify

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Bill Gribble
Clark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, Quicken allows me to "split" a transaction -- for example, when I deposit my paycheck, I usually get some cash. I like to put the whole paycheck "in" under "Salary" and have an "out" of the cash-back amount, so that what goes into the "deposit"

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Rob Walker
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:29:31 -0700, Clark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Clark Moving on: I've been using Quicken for a number of years, and Clark it is about the last "practical" thing that I regularly use Clark Windows around for. (There are still some games, but that's a Clark minor issue,

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Kevin Finn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: Clark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] A less important feature, but one who's absence is still annoying, is an "autonumber" -- in Quicken, in the "transaction number" column, I can just hit the 'n' key, and it will automatically give me the

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Dave Peticolas
Kevin Finn writes: While I'm writing, here's something else that might exist in Gnucash but haven't found yet. Is there a way to type in dollars and cents without typin the decimal point? For example, I want to type "2000" and have it register a "20.00", not as "2000". I haven't

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Kevin Finn
It was possible in MS Money 2.0, I don't know if it's available in any recent financial software. I think that some adding machines (pre-PC era) used to have a mode of operation like that; my grandfather was a CPA and I recall he used to do something similar for long columns of figures.

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:57:19 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Kevin Finn writes: While I'm writing, here's something else that might exist in Gnucash b ut haven't found yet. Is there a way to type in dollars and cents without typ in

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Dave Peticolas
Kevin Finn writes: It was possible in MS Money 2.0, I don't know if it's available in any recent financial software. I think that some adding machines (pre-PC era) us to have a mode of operation like that; my grandfather was a CPA and I recall used to do something similar for long