Printing Checks

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#1

This may sound like an easy one that should be easily findable, but when I Google, almost all hits use "check" as a verb, talking about checking printers.

Are there any forms or templates or anything for LibreOffice to help with printing checks?

Hal

#2

Hi Hal,

This may sound like an easy one that should be easily findable, but when I
Google, almost all hits use "check" as a verb, talking about checking
printers.

Are there any forms or templates or anything for LibreOffice to help with
printing checks?

Have you tried doing a google search with the alternate spelling "cheque"?
I find a few links that were really talking about cheques (those things
that are used for payments...) :slight_smile:

I didn't see anything specific for LibreOffice, but I saw some Word
templates, that might be easy to adapt to use with LibreOffice.

Sigrid

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Ok, 2 points

1. GnuCash is a free specialist bookkeeping package that is designed to
print cheques. I think it makes entering data into cashbooks and
working-papers quite easy and can then generate things such as VAT reports,
management accounts (pie-charts and bar-graphs etc) and even take
"end-of-year accounts" at least as far as "trial balance"

2. cheques are being phased out and being replaced with bank transfers
such as "standing orders" (unpopular because the payee (and their own bank)
is in full control rather than the person/company being paid), Direct
Debits (preferred by companies who want to make sure they can take money
out of your account as long as they promise to obey certain rules (but
which 'accidentally' get broken)) or BACS or something. Err, you can
probably notice that i'm not greatly enthusiastic about this change! :wink:

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Try using the correct word. Google on "printing cheques" and you'll
find what you want.

#5

Thank you, both for the one helpful and practical suggestion in response to my request, but for not saying "cheque" is the way it should be done. (When one lives in the US and the Treasure, Fed, and all banks use "check," that pretty much makes it official…)

While I didn’t find anything useful under "libreoffice cheque", I have found a few links that may work for Word templates. I also bought a MICR gauge so I can do my own template - either on LibreOffice or on my own ledger program I use.

Hal

#6

I did Google "LibreOffice cheque" and found nothing useful.

And, incidentally, in America, "check" is the correct word. I’ll be glad to back that up with sources, but "cheque" is British. Banks use "check" and so does the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury.

Hal

#7

Well, this is argument covering English versus new world English (which I prefer to call American). The spelling checkers do make a difference between English, US English, Australian English, South African English, etc. for good reasons. No reasons to argue about that. Those languages are different.

There are other language 'families' with the same deviations, think about Dutch, Flamish and South African. Also Spanish/Mexican....

Rob.

There are more examples, both in these two languages as in other languages