Search and Replace

[Colin Law]

On 2 January 2016 at 16:38, nevyoung <nevyoung at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - Is there a search and replace function?
> I used Quicken for many years but started using Gnucash a year ago. I have
> been very disappointed in its ability to bulk search and replace Description
> names that were entered incorrectly or need to be changed for some or other
> reason.

I think that if you saved the file as non-compressed xml then you
could probably use a text editor to do the find and replace.
Obviously save a backup of the file first just in case it messed it
up.  Someone more knowledgeable will no doubt put me right if that is
not correct.

Colin