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Manage Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions

This tool lets you manage and hide auto-complete suggestions when you're entering transactions. These ignored suggestions will not apper when you type in the description, memo or payee fields.

You can find the Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions tool by clicking on Tools at the top of the page, then click on the Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions link.
This tool is only available for ClearCheckbook Premium members.

Ignoring Suggestions

You will see a Find Suggestions form when you load the Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions tool.

Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions - Ignoring suggestions
Form to ignore suggestions

When you start typing, a list of descriptions, memos and payees will appear that match the keyword you're entering. Click on the icon to ignore the selected suggestion.

Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions - Ignoring suggestions searching
Suggestions based on entered keyword

After clicking the icon, the suggestion will change so you know it has been ignored.

Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions - Successfully ignored suggestion
Example of a successfully ignored suggestion.

You can also ignore auto-complete suggestions directly from the auto-complete suggestion list by clicking the icon at the top right of any suggestion.

Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions - Ignoring from auto-complete list
Ignoring directly from the auto-complete suggestions

Ignored Suggestion List

Any ignored suggestions will appear in the Currently Ignored Suggestions list.

If you mistakenly ignored a suggestion and want it to appear as an auto-complete suggestion again, click the icon.

Ignored Auto-complete Suggestions - Ignored suggestions
Ignored suggestions list

Advanced Ignored Suggestions

If you'd like to ignore a whole set of suggestions that contain a keyword, you can use our Advanced Suggestion Ignoring form. An example of an advanced option would be if you have dozens of descriptions starting with the keyword Amazon and don't want any of them to show up as a suggestion.

You can find the Advanced form by clicking on the Advanced link under the Find Suggestion to Ignore form. When the form opens, you can choose between three options for how the word appears in the suggestion. Those options are Contains, Starts with and Ends with.

The table below shows how each position option behaves if you enter the keyword pen.

Contains:

If the keyword entered appears anywhere the text for a previoius entry, it will not appear in the auto-complete suggestion list.

Suggestion: Appears in results:
New pens for office No
Pennsylvania tolls No
Skiing in Aspen No

Starts With:

If the keyword entered appears at the start of the text for a previoius entry, it will not appear in the auto-complete suggestion list.

Suggestion: Appears in results:
New pens for office Yes
Pennsylvania tolls No
Skiing in Aspen Yes

Ends With:

If the keyword entered appears at the end of the text for a previoius entry, it will not appear in the auto-complete suggestion list.

Suggestion: Appears in results:
New pens for office Yes
Pennsylvania tolls Yes
Skiing in Aspen No