[GNC] changing accounts?

[Paul Kinzelman]

You're a little bit fast for me on that one. :-)

I did it by hand for what I needed right now, but I was asking for next 
time.

In the 3rd paragraph, by "separate register" do you mean create a temp 
account,
and by "putting them in a separate register" do you mean cut/paste each 
transaction?
Then delete the temp and move the transactions to the new account?

The replace is one of the features I really miss from Quicken.

On 11/10/2021 3:37 PM, D. wrote:
> 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
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> *From:* Paul Kinzelman
> *Sent:* Wed Nov 10 17:25:51 EST 2021
> *To:* Gnucash Elist
> *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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