Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-10 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What I would do under your circumstances is fill out all the details in the register for the first one, duplicate transaction and edit the payee and number fields, and so on until I had them all in the register. Then command-p on the Mac for each of them. It might be control-p on your platfor

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-10 Thread Bruce Irving
I am using preprinted check stock that has the MICR already on it. I don.t need to use MICR printing Bruce On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:39 AM David Carlson wrote: > A few days ago the MICR printer cartridge that I used to use popped up out > of some black hole so I may try printing checks again.

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-10 Thread David Carlson
A few days ago the MICR printer cartridge that I used to use popped up out of some black hole so I may try printing checks again. As I recall, tho it used to be reasonably easy to print test checks on plain paper first, then just be sure the desired transactions had the word print in the Num fiel

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-10 Thread John Ralls
What about 999a and 999b? Those currently evaluate equal so that the sort routine will proceed to the next criterion, date_entered. ISTM this would be something of a special case where preserving numerical ordering makes sense only in the case of leading numbers followed by a very few alpha cha

[GNC] Modify check templet

2021-06-10 Thread Bruce Irving
Where can I find information on the check templets? I have found 'quicken_3part.chk' which are text documents. I need something that will help me understand what the various parts are. I currently use the 4th address line as a memo and I want to print this line on the stubs on the stubs. Bruce __

[GNC] Check printing

2021-06-10 Thread Bruce Irving
I'm getting to the point that I can rarely read my own handwriting. So I started playing with printing checks from GC bank reisters. I am using 'Quicken/QuickBooks (tm) US-Letter 3-part' checks in GC Version 4.4 Flatpak under Peppermint 10 (based on Ubuntu 16?? or 18??) It works - sometimes. If I

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-10 Thread John Ralls
> On Jun 9, 2021, at 11:40 PM, flywire wrote: > > How can special customisation to sort a GnuCash field be justified when it > makes future transitions even more difficult? This field should be sorted in > a standard way. It's clearly the old *numeric* field for sorting cheques, > and the bank

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-10 Thread John Ralls
> On Jun 10, 2021, at 8:14 AM, > wrote: > > . put a 100 as prefix last you a few years ... looking at an old CQ > book and that is how mine are numbered. > > Haven't used one for quite a while now though 😊 All very well if one is starting a new book, but it's unreasonable to

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-10 Thread davidbrown.rdps
. put a 100 as prefix last you a few years ... looking at an old CQ book and that is how mine are numbered. Haven't used one for quite a while now though 😊 David -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of David Carlson Sent: 10 June 2021 15:46 To: w...@thepresco

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-10 Thread David Carlson
My bank doesn't print leading zeros on my checks On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 9:42 AM w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > For those that care, it is perfectly easy to have numbers sort correctly > with an alphanumeric sort, simply include the leading zeros. > If you think your check numbers will never exc

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-10 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
For those that care, it is perfectly easy to have numbers sort correctly with an alphanumeric sort, simply include the leading zeros. If you think your check numbers will never exceed 1000, just number the checks: 0001, 0002,... 0100, 0101, etc.If you expect to write more than 1000, add another