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Update partial date entry documentation based on new default behaviour
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gjanssens committed Mar 19, 2016
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<tip><para>Specifically for dates there's another way you can save time: you can enter
partial dates. For example if you only enter one number, <application>&app;</application>
will interpret it as the day in the current month of the current year. If you only enter
a day and month, <application>&app;</application> will automatically append the year. By
default this is the current year. You can however also configure
<application>&app;</application> to take such a date in a sliding window starting
a number of months before the current month. This can be done via
a day and month, <application>&app;</application> will automatically append the year. The
default this to take such a date in a sliding window starting 11 months before the current
month. This means that if you enter 1/5 (January 5th) as date while the current date is
in December 2015, the date will be completed as 1/5/16. This default can be changed via
<menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Date/Time</guisubmenu>
<guilabel>Date Completion</guilabel></menuchoice>.</para></tip>
<guilabel>Date Completion</guilabel></menuchoice>. You can change it to either always
evaluate a date in the current calendar year or change the start of the sliding window.</para></tip>

<para>In the <guilabel>Num</guilabel> field of the transaction line, you
can type <keycap>+</keycap> to increment the transaction number from the
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