Debit a 'Checking Account' Only

[Mike Leone]

On 7/19/2010 9:38 AM, James Kerr had this to say:
>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "b4wt"
>>> <miztiik+gnucash at gmail.com>  To:<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:05 PM
>>> Subject: Debit a 'Checking Account' Only
>>>
>>>> I have created a expenses account and made lot of entires with
>>>> "Imbalance"
>>>> as the debit account [ Probably another newbie mistake ]. Now i
>>>> want all these entries to be debited from another account say
>>>> 'Checking Account'
>>>>
>>>> Is there any simpler way of doing this rather than manually
>>>> modifying each
>>>> transaction, Say all transactions under this account debit from
>>>> 'Checking Account'
>
> If you delete the Imbalance Account you will be asked to which account
> the transactions should be moved. Before doing so, make certain that
> all the  Imbalance items actually do belong in the checking account.
> (I've never done this, but I think it will work. Make sure that you
> have a backup of your file "just in case".)

Huh. Who knew you could mass-move transactions like that? Sounds like 
something for the wiki. :-)