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

[Ariel]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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.

If one account is going to get the bulk of the transactions, instead 
of moving them one at a time, rename 'Dividends' to 'Account X', that way 
at least some of the transactions are in the right place.

 	-Ariel