[GNC] Help Find Feature

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 3/8/20 11:14 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Per a previous post Gio noted the intent to delete *some* expense transactions.
AHA.  Insight (to quote Martin Gardner).
>
> The example given was:
>
>> So example consider accountA. In it you would have transactions to/from:
>> AccountB
>> AccountC
>> Expense:E
>> Expense:F
>>
>> I want to be able to search so it will list Expense:E and F but NOT
>> Accounts B and C.  Then I can delete these expenses.
> It still isn’t clear if the intent is to delete everything in Expense:E & Expense:F or just those that also are split with AccountA.
Well, there is that option to delete an entire account/sub-account.  But
that is drastic.  Not as drastic as deleting everything!
>
> In the latter case, a proper Find operation I think is the fastest route, deleting each one by one from that resulting list. (a search result that is, not a report which does involve extra clicks as the OP noted.)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>
>
>> On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 12:48 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm.  Did you say _every_ transaction involved in _all_ expense accounts?
>>
>> Open your file and save off a copy.
>>
>> Then on the Accounts tab, find the top-level Expenses account and
>> highlight that.
>>
>> Click on Edit menu item and then on Delete Account.
>>
>> On the popup screen select the options to delete sub-accounts and to
>> delete transactions.
>>
>> Click on the Delete button on the lower right corner.
>>
>> POOF -- all transactions involving an expense account are gone.  So are
>> all the Expense accounts!  But you can add those back in as needed.
>
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