[GNC-dev] Find Transfers feature

[John Ralls]

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Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 15, 2019, at 6:48 PM, D via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Rob,
> 
> Welcome to Gnucash!
> 
> When you "label" your transfer Education:Books, in Gnucash you are putting it into a separate *account* named that. This is the fundamental difference between Quicken and Gnucash: Gnucash is a full double entry software package which uses accounts in place of categories. Reading up on this will help you greatly--the Gnucash Guide has some explanations, and there is more online.
> 
> So, to locate all those transactions*, just open** the Education:Books account. They will all be there. 
> 
> David
> 
> * Of course, there is a search option, but it's provably not needed here.
> ** There are several ways to accomplish this. One is to double click the account in the chart of accounts. Another is to click the Jump button while a transaction to this account is highlighted.
> 
> On July 16, 2019, at 6:29 AM, Rob Koch <robcube at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm new to GnuCash and moving over from Quicken. Some things requires a
> learning curve and this might be one of those. Is there a find Transfers
> functionality somewhere? For example, we'd have a transaction with Transfer
> labeled as "Education:Books", however not sure how we can Find transactions
> by keyword "Education".
> 
> Thanks!
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