Thanks, Geoff! Up and down arrows work in 4.15 as well, and found all
three of my accounts with "water" in their names.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2025-05-12 17:49, Geoff wrote:
> Hi Stan
> 
> I am running 5.8 on Windows 10.  Using your example, if I type in
> "water" then hit down arrow it jumps to the next account with "water" in
> its name, and if I hit up arrow if jumps to the previous one.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know about this nifty feature!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Geoff
> =====
> 
> On 13/05/2025 10:39 am, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
>> I like the feature of the Accounts pane that you can type part of an
>> account name to jump to the account whose name contains that text.
>>
>> But sometimes two accounts contain the same text. For instance, I have
>> Water Deposit (an Asset) and Water (an Expense). When I type "Water", I
>> get the asset, presumably because it occurs earlier in the list. Is
>> there some keystroke that will move me from the matching account I don't
>> want to open just now to the one I do?
>>
>> I know, I could always rename the expense Water Usage and then type
>> "Water U". But that seems kind of clunky, and I'm hoping there's a
>> better way to select the desired account.
>>
>> In case it matters, I have "Only display leaf account names" ticked in
>> Edit » Preferences » Register Defaults.
>>
>> Please note: I'm in 4.14. If there's no solution in 4.14 but there _is_
>> one in 5.x, I'd like to know about it, please.
>>
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