This issue comes up regularly with new users. The short answer to the
question is, "no, there is not a bulk edit."
Instead of discouraging people to ask this because it's already discussed
and some suggestions are already archived, I feel starting the
conversation again is the only way to call out the importance of this
feature so we might have a formal solution that we can put into the
document section. Gnucash cuts into the prosumer market where users do
need such "advanced" features.
In fact I'm a bit disheartened that this question stopped reappearing
sincer 2017. Previously it showed up roughly yearly. It might be a
sign that there are less new users discovering gnucash, instead of
people being more mature and stopped asking without searching into the
archives.
The following is just an exmaple in 2017, the last year people still asked
for this.
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:07, Eric Theise<erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
Suppose I'm in the "Search Results" window resulting from an "Edit >
Find..." operation. Is there any way to apply a change to every
transaction that appears?
Say that, due to history and multiple credit card accounts, a
grocer's Description appears as "HI HO", "hi ho grocery", "hi-ho
market", and permutations thereof. Is there any way to standardize
the name for everything in the result set besides manually changing
each line?
I'd also like to be able to perform bulk operations against
"Imbalance-USD" transactions.
If it's not possible through the GUI, how about via issuing SQL
statements to a database backend?
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