When I create a Bill Payment as a check and enter a memo, the Expense tab line item is NOT using that memo. Instead it is using the Memo of the last Payment to the same vendor. Often we forget to overwrite that line item Memo with the new information. Is there any way to get that line item Memo to default to the value on the check?
Try playing with your preferences. On the General tab/My preferences there are settings to "automatically recall information". One option is to "automatically recall last transaction for this name". You should uncheck this option if you don't want the info including the memo field to be automatically filled for you. My is set at Pre-fill accounts for vendor based on past entries to prevent dollar and memo info from being automatically filled when I select a vendor.
You have it backwards, the expense line, being that it's what is actually recorded in the ledger accounts, should be attended to first before the memo line, which is strictly optional for bookkeeping purposes.
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