Re: No September posts

On 10/12/24 2:07 PM, z wrote:
> Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Interesting, I don't believe I've seen any posts or replies in the
>> Quicken NG for the entire month of September.  First time that in 2024
>> we did not have any activity for an entire calendar month.  (And indeed,
>> this is the first post in October as well.)
>>
>> Can't be a good sign.

> Well…. I thought about posting last month. Does that count?  :-)
> 
> Actually, I’ve thought about posting the following question for several
> months but life kept intervening and…. you know…
> 
> Quicken Classic Premier
> Version R59.10
> Build 27.1.59.10
> Windows 10 Home
> 
> When I finish manually balancing my checkbook & credit cards I do a Find &
> Replace to change my manually entered Cleared (C) to Reconciled (R).  For
> years the F&R function only addressed the account I had open at the time.
> At some point quite a while ago one of my retirement accounts would also be
> changed from Uncleared to Reconciled. I have looked & looked for a solution
> to no avail. The one retirement account is set up exactly the same as my
> other ones yet the others are no issue, just the one. Not an earth
> shattering issue for me, just a nagging ‘what the…’ brain nag.


I can't recall a time when a Find & Replace did not search all accounts. 
  But the fact that it does return results for all accounts, should not 
prevent you from achieving your goal.

[If you searched for Cleared Status = "c", and you only had transactions 
with a Cleared Status of "c" in the non-investment account you were 
reconciling AND one investment account; that would explain why your Find 
got hits on just those two accounts.]

When the Find completes, the dialog it presents shows the Account of 
each found transaction. You can sort the found transactions by account 
name (click on the Account heading text), then select all the 
transactions for your target account (as you would select multiple files 
in Windows Explorer).

When you then fill in the Replace options and click OK, only your 
selected transactions will be modified.

But the above begs the question: why do you use Find/Replace to mark 
your transactions Reconciled?  Why don't you use Quicken's Reconcile 
feature?

If you use Quicken's Reconcile feature, it will deal only with the 
transactions in the account where the reconcile is initiated, and upon 
completion (when you have determined that the eligible transactions 
should be marked Reconciled), Quicken will mark all the eligible 
transactions with an "R" for you.