Editing check format

Doug Laidlaw laidlaws at hotkey.net.au
Wed Apr 23 10:48:54 EDT 2008


On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:35:11 pm you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> writes:
> > I am trying once more to do away with Quicken.  The one thing I cannot do
> > is to make Gnucash print checks the Australian way.  The dimensions I can
> > adjust; it is a question of the "amount in words" line.  The convention
> > here is entirely different from in the U.S.
>
> Oh?  How is it different?

You write "100 dollars 45/100"

Australian Quicken writes "100 dollars and 45 cents."   We brought in decimal 
currency in 1966, and I think that the official guidelines then 
specified "100 dollars 45."   That is how I hand-write checks.  We don't use 
the fraction convention.  It would be accepted, but it looks foreign, like 
something from a U.S.  Windows 3 vintage shareware package.  I think that a 
program as full-featured as Gnucash should look professional, no matter what 
country uses it.    

I have struck the printing problem under Windows, but since I use Linux, it is 
not a problem for me.

Doug.


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