trouble balancing

My December statement didn't balance and I stopped in the middle. When I balanced my January statement, I changed the opening balance and now I can't get my account to balance. Is there a way to trick the account into force balancing an amount that won't go into my checking account? Thanks very much...

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Sat Feb 21 11:46:23 CST 2004

In microsoft.public.money, Shelley wrote:

>My December statement didn't balance and I stopped in the middle. When I balanced my January statement, I changed the opening balance and now I can't get my account to balance. Is there a way to trick the account into force balancing an amount that won't go into my checking account?

I am not sure what you are asking.

If you wish to start fresh and declare an account balanced, you can
mark all entries balanced. Select to show only unreconciled
transactions. Sort by date, and go to the oldest transaction.
Hold down Cntl+Shift+M and let auto-repeat work thru the
transactions until none are left showing. Then balance making the
starting and ending balance match the known balance. Choose the
balance date to be the day after your last transaction. This is
not the normal procedure. It starts you with an amnesty for former
balancing.