Budgeting
You can strip the numbers out of a budget to reuse it as a template, and renumber it after reordering, knowing exactly what each does.
Two commands in the **Edit** menu change a whole budget at once. Both ask before they run, and both are easy to misjudge from their names.
**Edit ▸ Clear Budget Data** empties the numbers out of every account and subaccount, leaving the structure behind. Use it when you want to reuse a finished budget's layout for a new production.
It resets exactly three fields:
- **Quantity** - **Price/Unit** - **Factor**
**Everything else stays.** Category, group and account names; numbers; units; currencies; tags; notes; attachments; and every account detail — fringes, supplements, extra costs, effects, companies, taxes — survive untouched. The confirmation tells you how many items will be affected before you commit.
So the answer to "does it delete my account names" is no. Nothing is deleted; three values per line are set back to empty.
If what you actually want is a reusable starting point, consider [saving the budget as a template](/kb/article/save-a-budget-as-a-template) instead — that keeps a clean copy and leaves your finished budget alone.
**Edit ▸ Renumber Budget Items** rewrites the number of every category, group and account so the numbers run in the order the rows currently sit in. It is the tidy-up after you have dragged rows around: the order is right, the numbers no longer match it.
Renumbering is a real edit, not a display setting — the new numbers are stored, and anything that refers to an account **by number** now refers to it by its new one.
**It can be undone, but not in one step.** The confirmation says so. Because the command rewrites many rows, undo walks back through them rather than reversing the whole operation at once — so do not rely on a single ⌘Z to put things back. If you are unsure, save first; then [discarding](/kb/article/save-discard-and-read-only) returns you to the saved state in one move.
1. **Save first.** Both commands change many rows at once, and a save gives you a clean point to return to. 2. Read the count in the confirmation — it tells you the scale of what is about to happen. 3. For Renumber, check the row order is what you want *before* you renumber, not after.
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