[moneydance] Navigating Around Register

[Gordon Alley]

Oh, one more thing. I just remembered that my END key does jump me directly
to the latest transaction. I guess I got caught up in the spirit of the
thread. :-)
-Gordon

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Gordon Alley <gordon at gordonalley.com>wrote:

> This happens to me fairly frequently. Just before posting this reply, I
> opened MD, and then right-clicked a credit card account (to open it in a new
> window). The window opened with a transaction dated 7/23/2007 at the bottom,
> about 1/3 of the way back through the transaction history. I hit CMD-N to
> open a new transaction (the scroll button didn't move), entered a
> transaction for today, and hit Enter. THEN the window jumped down to the
> latest transaction.
> After that, I went back to the home page, and right clicked another credit
> card account. That account opened to the FIRST transaction in the account,
> waaayyy back in 1999.
>
> Just for reference, if I display the oldest transaction in my primary
> checking account (01/02/1999), I have to hit page-down 56 times to get to
> the last transaction. It takes about 8 seconds if I hold page-down and let
> it auto-repeat. Dragging the vertical scroll thumb is the fastest method.
> This is on a 24" iMac with the window opened to just about full screen
> height.
>
> -Gordon
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Fuzzy Fox <fox at foxtaur.com> wrote:
>
>> Keith Bates <keith at new-life.org.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've only been using moneydance for about 6 years so please forgive
>> > this simple question :)
>>
>> I have used MD for... a good long while.  Maybe not that long.
>>
>> > How do you move to the last transaction on a register? Sometimes
>> > md opens an account at the first entry and if you have years of
>> > transactions it's slow to scroll down the list.
>>
>> I have to confess that in my years of using MD, I have never seen it do
>> this.  It always opens on the last transaction, never the first.
>>
>> > I've tried every combination of End, Page-Down etc that are the usual
>> > short-cuts.
>>
>> Do you have a mouse?  I use that.  Grab the slider and drag it all the
>> way to the bottom.  A keyboard shortcut would be nice, though.
>>
>> --
>>  Fuzzy Fox <fox at foxtaur.com>
>>  "Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people.
>>   Why a man would want two wives is a bigamystery."
>>
>> --
> Gordon B. Alley
> http://www.gordonalley.com
>



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