Your recent update changed the way a paycheck processes to a 401k account

Question

I don't use the employee matching contribution in my paycheck entry because I track that separately as Miscellaneous Income, where I can categorize it as Matching Funds (which I can't do with the restrictions you've always placed on this paycheck entry category).  Prior to the most recent release I simply did not populate that field, and no entry was posted to my 401k account.  With the recent release, I now have a useless empty entry line in my 401k.  I can't delete the Match field in the paycheck setup, which would eliminate the issue.  Why did you do this?  Now I am going to have double entries with each paycheck, one of which will always be blank.

Sherlock · Accepted Answer

To remove the empty entries from 401(k) account, for each paycheck transaction, press Ctrl + Shift + S to open the transaction as a split instead of as a paycheck, and delete the entry.

If you have too many such transactions to perform the operation one at a time, I suggest you consider performing a Find and Replace: press Ctrl + H, search for the categories that exactly match transfer to 401(k) account, sort by amount to group the $0.00 entries and check these, then replace the category with a benign category like misc or create one for this purpose.

Always save a backup (press Ctrl + B) before making signifiant changes to a data file.