HomeBank User manual

# Tips & Tricks

## Keyboard users

GTK has native support for accelerators and shortcuts, in most window, you can focus a widget or a menu or a menu item after pressing the ALT key. Pressing this key will reveal the key associated to an item with an underline. In earlier version of GTK the access key was always showed, but now you must press the ALT key to show them. Then you can use arrow key, or press the same letter again to cycle for maybe same key used for several items.
Also the ESC key usually close dialog, or abort menu display.

More information and other keys can be found in the Gnome HIG keyboard input

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## List-view quick search

For most list-view (account, payee, category, ...) you can benefits from a quick search feature:

- select one item (one item must be selected for this to work)
- start typing on the keyboard the first letter of what you search
- an input box will rise, getting the text you are typing
- you can use up/down arrow key to navigate through the item that match

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## Date widget key action

On every date widget, you can use some key combination to fast change the day, month or year

- up/down arrow key : change the day
- up/down arrow key + shift : change the month
- up/down arrow key + ctrl : change the year

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## Change the account order into main window

If you want to change the display order of your account in the main window list, you can do this from the account dialog. Just use drag & drop to re-order the accounts

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## Automatic cheque numbering

HomeBank also deal with automatic cheque numeration. You first need to configure the current cheque number into the account dialog. Then every time you add a new transaction, in the info field is empty, change the payment mode the cheque and the number will be filled. You can use 2 pad of cheque for each account.

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## Add Payee/Categories from transaction dialog

Whenever you add a transaction, you can also create a new payee/category with seizing directly a new item into the payee/category widget.

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