How to display two budgets, one just a subset of the first

Ken45140

Not necessary to respond to this, as I see I was not observing the two Category Groups correctly. Ditto my comment below as I see the Edit option is under the little gear in the upper right. Sigh, so many places to look.
Apologies..........

I want to use the budget tool and the cumulative balances for managing spending mid month as well as month-to-month. I have tried to display a "subset" of the total budget to focus on the most frequent spending categories. Abbreviated example: I have a Food category with subset items called Dining and Groceries. I have another category called House, with subset items called Kitchen, Laundry, and Bathroom. I set up an Expense Category Group called "Expenses" and checked all of the Categories I wish to see in the ENTIRE budget (includes things like Auto, Medical, as well as other House items, etc). This displays and works fine.

Now I want a Category Group to focus on just spending in "Big Box" stores (Food, Kitchen, Laundry, Bath). So I made a Category Group named "Expenses_BigBox", but when showing the Budget, I get duplicates from my entire Budget as well as my smaller, "Big Box" category group. This because items in both "Expenses" as well as "Expenses_BigBox" are checked. This is the problem. There seems to be no way to "turn off" the "Expenses" without unchecking all of the items in the "Expenses" group.

How can I display full Budget (using Category Group "Expenses") but change to a smaller Budget (using Category Group "Expenses_BigBox") WITHOUT unchecking all of the items in the Category I do not want to display?

Thanks for previous help on my budget question. This aspect will get me closer to what I really want.
Ken

Jim_Harman

You can make and save a budget report that contains fewer categories. That way the pared down report will update if you change the main budget.