delete unmatched transaction symbol

Question

Hi, I have some transactions that I entered manually that I don't expect the bank to match .Quicken now flags the transaction with a red pencil icon in the light side of the transaction(in the register.) I would like to remove these icons and prevent any more in the future. There are now blue dots appearing in the registers also. I would like to stop them also.

Thanks

Chris_QPW · Answer

Probably the quickest way and most accurate would be to reconcile your account.  The other way would be just to mark the transactions either cleared or reconcile.

Example of the three states:

Notice that both c and R transactions don't have the Uncleared/red pencil.

If the transactions are continuous, you can select the first one and then go to the last one hold down the shift key and right click on it.  This will select all the transactions and bring up the context menu where you can select "Reconcile Status" → "Cleared" or "Reconciled".

If the transactions are continuous, you can toggle the selection of a given transactions by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on that transaction.

If you feel that your register is properly reconciled, you should select Reconciled.  That way the Uncleared status will go away, and the new transactions will not affect the current reconcile status.  If you select Cleared these transactions will be included in your next reconcile.

tommc · Answer

Thanks for the info. I just need to know how to delete the red pencil      . Awhile back quicken updated my registers and added the red pencil even on transactions that were adden manually before Intuit had download services. I've attached back 25 years ago that had no transaction matching.

Chris_QPW · Answer

For the "red pencil" they are marked that way because the "CLR" column is empty(uncleared).  If this problem just started something changed this status.  I have no idea what would do that, well if you are using Sync to Mobile/Web maybe it messed them up.  Don't really know.

Note also the Status icons blue dot/blue pencil are shown when you have your transactions downloading directly into the register instead of going through the Downloaded Transactions tab.  If this setting was recently changed that might be why you are seeing that: