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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