Help : Shortcuts


Moneydance contains several "shortcuts" that make common operations easy and efficient. Here are categorized summaries of the shortcuts available:

General Shortcuts These are shortcuts that can be found scattered around the application.
Date Fields: You can "spin" any date field using the + and - keys (or the = and _ keys, respectively). Pressing these keys will increment or decrement the date by one day.

Account Edit Panel The account edit panel is what is displayed when you have opened an editable account. This panel displays all of the transactions contained in the account, the balances (cleared and uncleared), and a panel used to edit the selected transaction (if any).
Creating New Transactions: You may create a new transaction in the current account by pressing the Control and N keys together.

Transaction Entry The transaction entry panel is used to edit transactions. It is displayed at the bottom of the edit-account panel when a transaction is selected from the list of transactions.
Transaction auto-completion: Transactions are "auto-completed" simply by typing in the payee field. With each keystroke, past transactions are searched for payee's that begin with the text already entered in the payee field for the current transaction. If a matched transaction is found, the rest of the current payee field is filled in with the matched payee value. At this point you can either continue to type, or use the TAB key to continue to the next field. Using the TAB key in the payee field after an auto-completion on a new transaction will automatically fill in the rest of the transaction fields with the values of the matched transaction.

Date and Tax-date synchronization: To quickly set the "Tax Date" field equal to the "Date" field, press the Control and Y keys together while in one of the date fields.