Editing basics

The same few gestures add, change and remove everything in DovleEntry: accounts in Net Worth and Profit & Loss, transactions in Transactions, in the tab of an account and in the General Ledger, schedules and budgets in their tabs.

Three buttons

The Edit menu has the same commands, named for the current view: New Account, New Transaction and so on.

Changing a row in the table

Double-click a cell to change it, or select a row and press Enter to change its first cell. In the sheets of accounts, a click on the name of an account that is already selected lets you rename it.

While you change a row:

• Tab goes to the next cell, and Shift+Tab to the previous one. After the last cell, the row is kept.
• Enter keeps the row as it is.
• Esc puts the whole row back as it was before you started.

A new transaction gets the date of the one that was selected, so that you can write down a series of transactions of the same day without typing the date each time. See Dates, amounts and completion for what makes typing faster.

Panels

A panel shows everything about one account, transaction, schedule or budget, including what the table doesn’t show: the notes, the lines of a split transaction. Open it with , Ctrl+I, or a double-click in the Schedules and Budgets tabs, where Enter opens it too. Click Save, or press Enter, to keep your changes, and Cancel or Esc to leave them.

With more than one transaction selected, Ctrl+I opens Mass Editing, to change them all at once: see Entering transactions.

Selecting

Click a row to select it. Shift with a click selects every row up to that one, and Ctrl with a click adds or removes one row. Ctrl+A selects them all. With the keyboard, ↑ and ↓ move the selection, and Shift with them makes it longer.

Undo and redo

Ctrl+Z undoes the last change, and Ctrl+Y does it again. You can go back as many steps as you like, up to the moment the document was opened. The Edit menu says what will be undone, as in Undo Change transaction.