Questions and answers
How do I give an account its starting balance?
Add an entry in the tab of the account, at the date of the balance you know, with the balance in Increase and nothing in Transfer. See the quick start.
How do I type an amount in another currency?
Type the three letters of the currency before or after the number: 42 eur, pln 42. See Currencies.
What are the gold marks next to some transactions?
They say what kind of transaction it is: an occurrence of a schedule, a budget, a reconciled entry. See the marks.
Why are some accounts gray, without their amounts?
They are excluded: no total counts them, in any view. Select one and click , or press Ctrl+Shift+X, to count it again. See Leaving an account out.
My balances count things that haven’t happened yet. Why?
The date range ends in the future, and your schedules and budgets fill it. To see only what has happened, choose Year To Date with Ctrl+Alt+4. See The past and the future.
A total doesn’t look right. How do I find what changed?
Show the Modification Time column of the Transactions tab with , and sort by it: your latest changes come first, or last. EditUndo also says what the last change was.
I imported a QIF file of an account in euros, and its amounts are in my currency.
QIF files don’t say what currency they are in, so DovleEntry takes the native currency. Open the panel of the account with Ctrl+I and give it its currency; that doesn’t change its amounts. Then, in the tab of the account, select all its entries with Ctrl+A, press Ctrl+I, choose the currency in the Currency field of Mass Editing and click Save.
How do I move a transaction to another account?
Change the account in its From or To cell in the Transactions tab, or in its Transfer cell in the tab of the other account. In the tab of an account, the account of the tab itself is changed in the panel of the transaction, Ctrl+I.
Can I open my moneyGuru documents?
Yes: open the .moneyguru file with FileOpen.... DovleEntry saves it in the same file, which moneyGuru can still open. See Files of moneyGuru.
My computer stopped before I saved. Is my work lost?
Maybe not: DovleEntry saves a copy of the open document every few minutes. See Copies on the side.
Where do the exchange rates come from?
From the Bank of Canada, when a document needs them, which takes a connection to the internet. See Exchange rates.
A keyboard shortcut does nothing on my keyboard.
Some shortcuts use keys, like [ and ], that some keyboards only type with AltGr, and DovleEntry leaves AltGr combinations to the keyboard. Use the menus for those; every command is in one.