Newbie problems with OFX import and Imbalance account

[Paul Ortega]

David Reiser wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Paul Ortega wrote:
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>> I have recently installed GnuCash and have hit a snag involving importing OFX files.
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>> I downloaded three months of transactions activity from my Chase Visa account and the transactions were added to the Liabilities:Visa account and the Imbalance account.
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>> When I tried to sort out the Visa transactions by changing the Transfer from Imbalance to the correct account, I had to click on the account in the Transactions column, then scroll in the menu to choose the correct account.
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>> This becomes time-consuming when sorting out a large number of transactions.
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>> I would like to be able to select a number of transactions and change the Imbalance account to the same account.
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>> For example:
>> I would like to sort the transactions in the Visa account by Description.  This would group the transactions at a single merchant together.  For example, the transactions at ACME Supermarket would then appear in a group of consecutive lines.
>> Then, I would like to select them and change the account from Imbalance to Expenses:Groceries in all of them at once.
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>> Is this possible?
>> If not, can the multiple selection capability be added soon?
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> Not possible now.
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> To my knowledge, no one is working on it. Which means it is unlikely to happen soon. The subject has been raised a number of times over the last few years, but adding the capability hasn't made it high on any of the developer's to do lists.
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> You don't have to scroll the list, just tab to the field and start typing a couple letters and hit ":" as soon as you have a partial match. For example, in my account list "Expenses:Entertainment:Music/Movies" can be entered as "ex:en:m". You can watch the match as it progresses, so you can hit the colon as soon as that particular subaccount matches correctly.
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> Dave
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> David Reiser
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Thanks for the reply.

IMO, the above editing with the partial match is OK for a few entries, 
but considering how many entries there are, it would still be very 
tedious and feel like I am building a sand castle with tweezers.

I guess I will give KMyMoney a try.