Transactions in wrong account - moving them?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 18 21:01:24 EST 2009


Hi,

Quoting David Ryder <davaweb at bigpond.net.au>:

>> Sure, just edit the transactions and change the account from one
>> to the other.  You may need to expand the transaction (via the Split
>> button) to see the "current" account.
>>
> I'm sorry, I just can't see how.
> I want to move some transactions Dates, Descriptions, Amounts out of
> Liabilities:AccountName into Assets:BankAccountName. I can't see how in
> Edit I can do this? Am I not understanding the method you mean as I
> can't see what steps are necessary?

So you entered a transaction from Liabilities:Foo -> Expenses:Blah and
you want to change it to be a transaction from Assets:Bar -> Expenses:Blah?
Just open up your Liabilities:Foo account and for each transaction
expand it and then change L:F to A:B

>> > 2. A minor question. Is there a reason gnu-cash doesn't have copy and
>> > paste in the mouse click options and only in the Edit menu?
>>
>> Um, I see them there...
> If I click on a tranaction, the list that opens up contains:

You're RIGHT clicking.. That's the CONTEXT menu.  Left click, then
click on the Edit menu.

-derek

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