Thank you for your reply.

Can you tell me more about how to proceed with this part of your recommendation?  I am afraid I need nearly step by step instruction.  Thank you!

To sort this out, you can close your statements before 2023 by either manually comparing your bank statements to QuickBooks and recording those missing deposits or generating a journal entry for those unrecorded deposits to resolve the balances. Once done, you can proceed to reconcile them so you can close them and focus on reconciling your 2023 bank statements.