David C. answered your question about sorting. And the others chimed in with personal comments on the auto-fill.
You can't turn it off, but you can stifle it as noted with an extra character or so, tab over, then shift-tab to correct the extraneous characters.
I too find the autofill a massive time saver. I record every single receipt, line by line. Certainly, it is rare for many of my receipts to be the exact same. The advantage is in filling in the splits for each line item.
If you end up with splits you don't need, you can right-click them and choose 'Delete Split'. There is also the option to 'Delete other splits' so you can keep just the one you want.
I think there is a bug report and maybe even work being done on multi-selecting splits for deletion, but I don't know when that will make its way to us. It would be another huge time saver.
Another advantage to autofill is that I put lots of detail in my split memos. Some of that stuff like grocery items is recurring from time to time, even though not every trip, and I have quite a nested tree of accounts for tracking that stuff. When I start typing for example, "Beef"... the previously assigned account automatically is populated for me. If I start typing "Beer"..., I get the same.
For nearly exactly recurring stuff (like a cable bill) the amounts may need to be changed, but the account assignments are done for you. That is not only a big time saver, but it also removes occasion for error in selecting the wrong one by mistake.
It took some getting used to at first, but I am much faster with it than without.
Regards, Adrien On 9/23/20 1:48 PM, Walter Busch wrote:
Have two questions. In Quicken I could sort by the reconcile column, but don’t find that in this program. In Quicken I could stop autofill (shortcuts) I don’t write checks or entries for the same amount all the time. It is stupid to think that I go to the grocery store and I buy something for exactly the same price each time. Or that my electric bill is the same every month. It takes me more time to correct the autofilled amounts. How do I turn this off? I can’t find that in the help. Otherwise, I really like the program over Quicken. I was using an older version of it and they now want to charge every year for personal use if I update the program. I don’t want to pay money each year for any program for personal use. One time, yes. Thank you for the program and please help. If these aren’t options, can they be in a future release?
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