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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Merging List Entries

Over time, your lists collect detritus. For example, your Item list (see chapter 4) has separate inventory items for 1/2"copper pipe cut to 4 foot, 5 foot, and 10 foot lengths, when you just need one item for 1/2" copper pipe cut to order. Or, two of your suppliers for copper pipes merge their businesses, and you want to merge their vendor records as well. You can merge entries on only two of the lists discussed in this chapter: the Vendor List and the Other Names list.

Note

Merging accounts on your Chart of Accounts is described on page 42. Merging customers is covered on page 71. Find the procedure for merging list entries on page 119.

When you merge entries, QuickBooks puts all the transactions from both entries into the one that you keep. For example, if you merge Bob's Bazookas into Ari's Armaments, all your purchases at Bob's become purchases for Ari's Armaments.

Here's how you merge two entries, using the Vendor List as an example:

  1. Open the Vendor List window by choosing ListsVendor List. Select the name of the entry that you want to eliminate and press Ctrl+E.

    The Edit Vendor dialog box opens.

  2. In the Edit Vendor dialog box, in the Vendor Name field, edit the contents to match the name of the entry you want to keep.

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