Edit drop-down list when categorizing a transaction

Question

How would I eliminate some of the suggestions on the drop-down menu that appears when I categorize a transaction? I have a confusing blather of suggestions that have probably been used in the past but that I no longer need or use.

woz1n2@hotmail.com · Answer

What strokes are "Command-click"

jacobs · Answer

If you have some categories which are similar from misspellings or accidentally creating categories which duplicate each other, you can merge two or more categories into one in the Window > Categories screen.

For example, if you have a "Bank Fee" category and a "Bank Late Fee" category and want to eliminate one, click one, Command-click the other, and click Merge Categories at the bottom of the scree; the pop-up window will ask you to select which of those the other is merged into.

Note that this will change all your existing transactions which use the category you're eliminating into the one you're keeping, so your old transactions remain categorized using the category you've retained.

Jon · Answer

There's no way to eliminate categories from the dropdown list other than to delete them entirely, which would mean re-categorizing the old transactions that used them.

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