About a year ago I recall being able to press enter or tab out of the account field.  Then it changed to where, even if you enter the EXACT account number and the account name shows up, Quickbooks will absolutely not put the account in that field and immediately goes to the add acccount screen.  You can't enter and you can't tab. Mainly it's happening with journal entries.  It really bogs down data entry.  Using spreadsheet sync is equally frustrating because you have to pick an account from a dropdown box and if you have 500 accounts that don't appear on the dropdown list in the order of the number it becomes too time consuming. You can't even paste an account in. I feel like I won't get the answer I want, because I never do when it's a question about how illogical some of these Quickbooks processes are.