OMG, a light bulb moment! My sincere apologies to everyone for wasting their time on a non-existent problem. *Of course* I had been using TRANSACTION Copy/Cut and Paste successfully not EDIT Copy/Cut and Paste. I can only put this down to my rapidly declining brain cells over the years. Once again, thank you all for your patience and the developers for a great and very useful program. Cheers
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:57 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Duplicate is useful when you want to repeat a particular transaction that > isn’t the last one with the same description. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Dec 15, 2019 w51d349, at 12:37 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> > wrote: > > > > On 12/15/19 9:12 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > >> Op zondag 15 december 2019 17:42:07 CET schreef Tony Vanson: > >>> Thanks Geert, > >>> My understanding now is that 3.7 will not *Copy* or *Cut* a complete > >>> transaction line whereas previous versions did. > >> No version that I know of did this via Edit->Copy and Edit->Paste. > There are > >> separated commands under the transaction menu for this, both in old and > new > >> versions of gnucash. I have just reinstalled version 2.6.21 to reverify > this. > >> It shows the exact same behavior as gnucash 3.7. > >> > >>> A plus I got out of this is that *Duplicate* is a more efficient > method for > >>> my needs. > > > > You may not even need that! Just enter a date and start entering the > > Description just as it was previously. GnC should populate the rest of > > the description for you. If you hit tab/enter, it should populate all > > the splits from the previous transaction. Feel free to edit any > > particular set of splits if the actual values have changed slightly (so > > far my wife hasn't spent the same amount at Winco but the splits all > > have the same basic accounts that she hits each time). Just clean up > > anything that is amiss and you are done. No copy/paste. No Duplicate > > activity. Very little typing (about the same as copy/paste or clicking > > on Duplicate) and its all in the register. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- *Tony Vanson* *The older I get,* *the better I was* _______________________________________________ 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.
