Check layout in use or associated with checks

You may receive a message when you try to delete a custom check layout or edit a payroll check layout in the Layout editor.

Delete a check layout

CheckLayoutName is in use for reprintable checks and cannot be deleted.
Because payroll checks can be reprinted up to 3 months after the original payroll check date, you'll need wait 3 months or more after the original payroll check date to delete a check layout associated with a printed payroll check.

Change a check layout

CheckLayoutName is associated with checks that are available for reprinting. Changes will prevent reprinting of checks that used this layout. Do you want to save the changes?
  • No
    : If you don't want to prevent checks from being reprinted, select
    No
    and don’t save your changes.
    As an alternate method, select
    File
    ,
    Save as
    to save the layout under a different name, make your edits to the new check layout, then update the new layout in the
    Layout
    tab of the
    Setup
    , then
    Bank Accounts
    screen.
  • Yes
    : The changes are saved to the layout. When you try to reprint a payroll check that used the original version of your check layout, you'll receive the following message with a list of checks that can't be reprinted:
    The following checks could not be reprinted due to the check layout being changed after the original checks printed
    You won’t be able to reprint the check.

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