Odd issue with manual entry of transactions

Question

Had this issue for years and finally thought to ask.

I manually enter transactions at times from scratch for my bank account. I have an issue that pops up at times during this when splitting a transactions' categories - and it typically seems to happen with splitting grocery purchases, that after one or two entries in that split of grocery items, Quicken defaults to the 'Personal Income' category as opposed to the 'Food' category I was in up to then, and I have to manually go in, select 'Food' again, and subcategory 'Groceries' and carry on where I was.

Absolutely no idea why it does this.

Please, if anyone even has a hint of what is going on.

Thanks

mshiggins · Answer

You may already know this, but you can start typing in the category or subcategory name and Quicken will filter the list of categories to only matches to what you typed. In the case of Groceries:Coffee & Tea, you could type coff and Groceries:Coffee & Tea should be listed.

minburn1 · Answer

No. The first two lines were a portion of the total amount; as they should have been.

Everything was as it should be except for that odd opening up to "Personal Revenue" just out of the blue.

And again, this has been happening on and off for at least two years and I just curse and push ahead.

But thought finally to ask about it.

volvogirl · Answer

Did the first 2 lines add up to more than the total?