Change accounts of imported transactions

[Fred Bone]

On 29 May 2015 at 5:56, David Carlson said:

> On 5/28/2015 6:23 PM, Seguinbg wrote:
> > I import my credit card items into an aggregate liability account.
> > Once imported I'd like to move to the appropriate liability sub-account,
> > my charges or my wife's. I don't see how to do this from the aggregate
> > account register.
> >
> > What view is there to do this .
> >
> > I know it can be done from the allocated expense accounts but that is
> > inconvenient
> >
> >
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> Seguinbg,
> 
> Actually, you can do that from any register view where you can see the
> transaction.  If you choose to do it from the register that will no longer
> contain the transaction,  GnuCash will 'think about it" briefly, then the
> transaction will disappear from view.  Conversely, you can do it from the
> general ledger view, but you will see more clutter there, because all
> transactions (for whatever time range is selected) will be visible.

This is true, but doesn't explain how to do it. You need to view all the 
*splits* for the transaction, to be able to change the "this account" 
split to "that account". You have a choice of ways to do this, but if I 
needed to transfer several in one session I would use View->Auto-Split.