When I manually enter a transaction, Quicken makes it a deposit, never a payment

Question

Whenever I enter a manual transaction into the bank register, Quicken makes it a deposit.  I've tried entering a number in the "payment" column, or entering a negative amount in the deposit, nothing works.  I have to let it enter it as a deposit, then go back to the transaction, put a negative ("-") in the "deposit" amount, and then it moves it to "payment" and I can save the transaction.

This happens almost 99% of the time and is super frustrating.  I've used Quicken for 30 years and this started to happen in the past few years.

q_lurker · Answer

I’d check the Memorized list to see if there is something unusual listed there.

Rocket J Squirrel · Answer

I suspected your Check # column was hidden and contained DEP for all transactions. That not being the case, do you see any pattern which might cause this?

By the way, if you have Payment and Deposit, Amount is redundant and can be hidden.

KBinMP · Answer

Top Row:  Date, Check No., Payee, Payment, Clr, Deposit, Amount, Balance
 Second Row: Flag, Attachment, Memo, Category, Tag