General questions

• Deleting or voiding checks from a previous year

• Editing a transaction that has already been reconciled

• Giving transactions a future date (post-dating them)

• Entering a transaction using a date in a previous fiscal year

• Turning off the expanded Description field in transaction windows

• Opening the Spend Money window using a keyboard shortcut

• Finding a transaction that's been recorded

• Assigning a payment to more than one job

• Handling a handwritten check (or a check that's already been printed)

• Making deposits and writing checks on a new bank account

• Determining which accounts will be updated by a transaction

Fixing problems

• A message tells you to use another window for your payment

• Problems sending the transaction to email/fax/disk

• You can't print a check; a message says the transaction is unbalanced

• Paying a person (or business) for whom you have no card

• If you don't see the checking account you want to use

• You printed a check but the balance of your checking account didn't change

• Changing a recurring transaction

• The account balance is wrong

• The check number that's displayed is incorrect

• The date is displayed in the wrong format

• The date that is displayed is incorrect

• The payee's address is wrong

• Two payments have been assigned the same check number

• If you see Delete in the Edit menu but you want to reverse a transaction

• If you see Reverse in the Edit menu but you want to delete a transaction

• For a cash payment, you may want to replace the check number with letters or words

Entering line items

• Skipping the account number and entering only the account name

• If you don't see the account you want to use

• Adding a new tax code

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