[GNC] changing accounts?

[D.]

If you're changing every ABC to DEF, you can delete ABC and tell gnucash to move the transactions into DEF. That's documented in the wiki. 

If you're only deleting a bunch (but not all) there isn't one find and replace command. When push comes to shove, though, even fixing 100 transactions will only take a few minutes' time. 

If it were me in this second scenario (and it has been, believe me!), I'd search for the offending transactions, putting them all in a separate register, copy the new account designation, and paste it into each transaction at the appropriate point before pressing enter to commit them away. 

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com>
Sent: Wed Nov 10 17:25:51 EST 2021
To: Gnucash Elist <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] changing accounts?

Is there some way to change all the entries for a set of
items in an account to be charged to one account to
charge them all to another account?

For instance, if I have a monthly charge from XYZ that I charge
to account ABC, and I have a bunch of them in my Checking
account, is there a way to change all of them to DEF without
going in and poking each one? And that's where a simple
account name change ABC->DEF won't work because there's
other stuff in there.

In other words, like a global replace?

TIA!


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