Recategorizing / bulk acount changing

[Liz]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:31:25 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 February 2014 02:42, Elwood <elwoodblues at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > As I'm reading through the various sources of GnuCash
> > documentation, and experimenting with various tasks in the user
> > interface, it just struck me that there seems to be no easy way to
> > move multiple transactions from one account to another.  (I read
> > about how you can delete a parent account and have it absorb the
> > child account transactions, but that's not always practical.)
> 
> If you delete the child account does it give you the option of moving
> all the transactions to a completely different account?  This would
> only work if you wanted to move them all, of course.
> 
> Obviously before embarking on anything like this then make sure you
> have backed up the data file.
> 
> Colin
> 

an example of this problem is when you have found that you have put
items that should have been Expenses:Fuel in the Expenses:Groceries
account.
A search by "Shell" or "BP" finds the misfiled items but you have to
move them one at a time to the correct account.