Find-Replace or bulk movement of transactions to a new account

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Daniel Parish" <parishd at gmail.com> writes:

> I have an account that contains dividends from multiple accounts and looks
> like this:
> Income
>     Dividends
>
> I want change this into several new accounts to better organize things so it
> would look like:
> Income
>     Dividends
>         Account 1
>         Account 2
>
> Question:  What is the best way to move all the transactions in the original
> account structure to the new structure.  I could have sworn I used a
> Find-Replace function in the past, but I can't find it.  I'm using gnucash
> 2.0.2 under Fedora Core 6.

Unfortunately there is no way to act on multiple transactions at once,
nor is there a way to Find-Replace, either, I'm afraid.  When you want
to split up an account you unfortunately have to do it manually, one
transaction at a time.  Sorry.

> Thanks.
>
> Daniel

-derek

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