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# Account window

The account window, or so called register is used to manage one account or all the accounts at a time.
It can be the basis of most actions dealing with transactions.

### Menu

The menu is the start of every actions on transactions.

### Quick filter area

Theses widgets will enable you to quickly filter the transaction list without opening the filter dialog.

Range : Quick change the date range, a tool-tip is displayed when you hover this widget and display the exact date range.
Type : Restrict the list-view to expense or income.
Status : Restrict the list-view to uncategorized or unreconciled.

### Quick search

The quick search will permit to filter the transaction list instantly on text column. The search apply to all columns except status and date columns.

### Selected transaction informations

On the left you have the current date range as a remind. The informaiton displayed depends on the selection:

- no selection / 1 selected:
  display the number of transaciton of the list
- more than 1 selected:
  display additionally: number of selected, average, sum of total, income, expense

### Balance

The balance area contains the balance summary of the account, see this page for details. If the minor option is checked in the preferences, a minor toggle button appear here, see this page for details.

### Transaction list

The list show you a summary of every transaction in the account. You can use the filter dialog if necessary. Or even change the sort order by clicking on the column title.
The Balance column is only displayed when sort is by date ascending/descending, it is hidden otherwise.

Double-click works as follow, depending of the transaction selected:

- one is selected: you open the transaction dialog in Edit mode
- multiple are selected: you can edit from menu or tool-bar and open multi transaction dialog

The first column indicate the change made to the transaction:

= transaction added = transaction modified

The Status column indicate the status of a transaction:

= cleared
= reconciled
= remind

Some hot-keys are available to quickly change the status of a transaction.

Here's a few tips:

+ | - on an unreconciled transaction will Reconcile - on a Reconciled transaction will ask for confirmation and toggle to Cleared
+ | - has no effect on a Reconciled transaction - on a Cleared transaction will unclear it
+ | - will change the status to None

The Category column may display a - this needs a category - text
this occurs if the account is part of the budget and the transaction has no category and is not a transfer.
You may need to exclude the account from the budget if this was set by mistake or you don't use the budget feature, this can be done from the dialog account.

### Tool bar

The tool-bar provides easy mouse shortcut for some of the menu. All tool button have a tool tip that will help you know what action will be launched when you click on the tool button.