How to enter a negative dividend? (Q Mac Canada)

@Ce K

I am using the US version of Mac but face the same issue.

For background, securities report dividend income during the year but some if this income gets reclassified as Return of Capital after closing the books at year-end.
One can be faced with a tedious (and error prone) editing chore to go back and revise the original Dividend Income entries.
A shortcut method of entering this in Quicken is to enter a year-end negative dividend and an offsetting ROC. The net of these two transactions is zero as to cash balance.

The problem - QMac does not accept a negative dividend entry.
The closest work-around I have come up with is as follows;
Create an expense category; e.g., "Misc Inv Exp:Dividend" 
Assign the same tax line item as regular Dividends
Enter a Miscellaneous Expense type transaction - using the above category.

This partially works in that total reported dividends is mathematically correct.
however, the downside to this method is that the Tax Schedule Report - under Dividend Income - now shows two subtotals for the security in question. One subtotal for the miscellaneous expemse and a separate subtotal for regular dividend income. Again, the result is mathematically correct but it can get confusing when trying to match Quickens' report results to your tax documents.

Bottom line - I have discontinued the "short-cut" method and resorted to editing the original Dividend Income transactions. A separate spread sheet comes in handy here to minimize chances of error.

FWIW, older versions of QWin accepted a negative dividend entry and thus the shortcut method was quite straight forward. Some time in the past couple of years, QWin stopped accepting negative dividend entries and so the shortcut no longer works there either.