[GNC] How to find ALL Transactions in ALL Accounts for a Single Specific Date?

[Tom Route36]

Hi David (and others who replied as well),

Thanks for suggesting the Transaction Report; but that's not what I'm 
looking for.  It's my fault for not being more specific.  I don't want 
to have to create a report.  I'm looking to do a query that produces the 
equivalent of what Find filtering does already within a single account; 
so that I'm seeing the found transactions as they appear in ALL the 
accounts.

You might be asking why that's important for me (as opposed to getting 
to the transactions via a report).  Well this is why.  When I do Find 
filtering for a date range within an account, I get to see the actual 
set of transactions for those dates.  But if what I'm looking for 
doesn't jump out at me, I can do a subsequent Find command to Refine 
Current Search.  That makes it easy to narrow down my search (maybe 
multiple times) to hopefully locate the specific transaction I'm looking 
for.  With Transaction Reports, I essentially have to recreate those 
reports from scratch each time with modifications, which is more time 
consuming.  The key word here is EASY.

BTW, I also looked at some of the other suggestions that popped up in 
the last few minutes, mainly with the General Journal.  But in my tests 
trying to use the Find command with the General Journal, that doesn't 
seem to work at all (unless I'm doing something really wrong there).

So maybe a better way to ask my question is this: Is there a Find 
command that works across ALL accounts at once, rather than just within 
a single account?

Tom


On 1/12/2026 1:58 AM, David H wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Have you tried the Transaction Report ?
>
> Transaction Report >> Options >> Accounts >> Select all >> General >> 
> Date Posted (or Date Entered) >> Enter Start and End Date ?
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 18:40, Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     This might be a newbie question; so please forgive me if it is. 
>     But is
>     there an easy way in GnuCash to get a list of ALL transactions for
>     ALL
>     accounts that were recorded into GnuCash against one single specific
>     DATE (e.g., 2/17/2025)?  Better yet, is there a way to do that
>     sort of
>     query for a user-specified DATE RANGE (e.g., all of Feb 2025)?
>
>     FYI, I know how to use Find to filter transactions by date within an
>     INDIVIDUAL account.  But what I'm looking for here is a way to do
>     that
>     same kind of date filtering for ALL accounts all at once in a SINGLE
>     QUERY.  Is that possible?
>
>     Tom
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