Trying to finally start using "reconciling" feature... any way to make catching up easy?

Trying to finally start using "reconciling" feature... any way to make catching up easy?

Hello,

To make a long story short, I am a user who converted from Invoice to Books earlier this year. I never did any kind of reconciling on Invoice since I don't believe it had any, and upon importing all my old information into Books, I have started to try using the product correctly, namely trying out the reconciling function.

However, it doesn't seem to be easy to "catch up" so to say, if you didn't start using this right off the bat. I cannot match up closing balances with transactions to clear them because the system sees all the numbers as being screwy since I am just starting to reconcile.... in short, all previous transactions since I started using Books show as "uncleared" and it seems that I have to tend to them before I can begin moving forward.

Is there any easy way to "force" Books into clearing out all past transactions as cleared? I know for a fact all old transactions are correct and adequate but cannot see myself sitting down and looking at up to a year's worth of old statements and checking everything again.

Please let me know of any workaround to this dilemma.

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