Three possibilities come to mind:

1) The account type on the credit card is not a liability type.
2) The account starting balance was entered backwards.
3) You are struggling with how to read the column. A positive balance on the
running balance of a credit card is money you owe. What does the you owe at
the bottom of the column say?

"Amber" <iravel[at]bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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I tried, many a time and many a method, to enter a credit
card payment I had made into my checking account. It had
the desired affect of debiting my checking balance, but
it oddly increases my credit card debt by the same
amount! (When, of course, it should reduce it.) What is
wrong?