[GNC] Sort Transactions in Alphabetical Order, For Entering Expense Category (Account)

[Tom Balazs]

I'm importing a large number of transactions into GnuCash. I want to speed
up entering the expense category (account) of transactions, especially for
credit card transactions. (I know these are called accounts in GnuCash, but
I mean "account" like "auto expenses", and "home repair expenses", not
"account" like "Credit Card #1", and "Checking Account #1".)

There are two ways I could do that:
    1. Create a column for account in the CSV file (exported from the
bank's site), sort by payee name and enter account (expense category).
Important, I need this to conform to the expense categories I created in
GnuCash; I don't want GnuCash to automatically create new expense
categories with the expense. That could lead to small typos creating new
categories; e.g. "auto repair" and "auto rpeair".
    2. Or I want to import all the transactions, and then in GnuCash sort
by payee name, and then add expense category to 10-15 transactions at a
time.

How can I do that?