I'm not looking for it to increment any number, I just want to be able to type in what I want to see in the reference field throughout all lines of the entry.

For example we have a biweekly payroll, because of all our departments the journal entry is about 100 lines. I want all lines to have the same reference 2007-40 for one payroll. Then I copy the entry for the next payroll, change the date and the period if appropriate and I'd like to change the reference to 2007-42. I'd prefer to type it in once during the entry creation compared to editing 100 lines to change one field. Okay I may need to edit the amount too, but that can be changed without visiting all fields but to change the reference you have to visit all fields when editing the entry.

Does that help? I don't know what others may be wanting to increment, perhaps they could increment the number themselves if the reference number of the previous entry was shown in a text box and they could just type in what they want to see too.

Just curious, what do others put in their reference field? Do they have the same reference throughtout one entry? Maybe others could say what they do here.