"Andrew" wrote
John - I did set up a new Q file with six transactions, and the FILE method worked OK on all; they were composed of a variety of reconciliation types (U/C/R) just to mix it up a bit.
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Ok, Andrew; I think I can explain why I did not see the problem and why your test also did not exhibit the problem.
Basically: our test account registers probably did not contain enough transactions.
I believe the problem is the one known as the "click through" problem. Some Quicken menus are passing clicks through to whatever is behind the place in the menu where you are clicking. So you're getting two clicks for the price of one.
For example: If the "Delete" choice in the Transaction menu is sitting directly above a different transaction in the register than the one you want to delete, that different register transaction will also get clicked on when you click "Delete".
When we tested, there probably was no other register transaction under the menu "Delete" choice, because we only had a few transactions in the register.
The problem could also cause you to initiate one of the tasks on your Quicken Toolbar, if that task's icon happened to be under the menu choice you selected.
That also explains why using the CTRL+d key sequence to delete a transaction does not cause the problem ... no click was involved.