How can i edit multiple investment transactions (

Jon Foster

Just trying to change the date of multiple transactions in bulk. The fact this is not intuitive is really surprising ( and very frustrating).  

q_lurker

While you can delete multiple investment transactions through a Banking Transaction report, I don't believe you can edit multiple investment transactions that way. (You can try if you have a good backup at hand.)  Too many behind the scenes stuff going on with investments for me to trust that approach.  Further, even for a banking transaction report, I don't believe you can edit the dates.  

Seems to me your best option is to work through one at a time pasting in the desired date(s).

q_lurker

While you can delete multiple investment transactions through a Banking Transaction report, I don't believe you can edit multiple investment transactions that way. (You can try if you have a good backup at hand.)  Too many behind the scenes stuff going on with investments for me to trust that approach.  Further, even for a banking transaction report, I don't believe you can edit the dates.  

Seems to me your best option is to work through one at a time pasting in the desired date(s).

UKR

Why not just type the new date into the Date column, one transaction at a time, in chronological order (you want to try and keep Buys to occur before later Sells)

May I ask why you need to change the date of a bunch of investment register transactions? Are you downloading transactions or is everything strictly manual data entry?

For entry of Dates, remember the keyboard shortcuts (available for review in Quicken Help). Quick date entry: just type 4 digits with leading zeroes for dates in this year (0131 for Jan 31) or 6 digits for other years in 20xx (013118 for Jan 31, last year)

The Real Dude

I'm late to the game here, but would consider process as described below, after a backup and creating some "control totals" to later verify the process worked.
1) Export the transaction to a QIF file. Filter the desired transactions to create the file.
2) Edit the QIF via Excel or other: Search and Replace for desired results.
3) Delete the transactions in the Quicken file via Bank Transaction report (see well documented method to delete multiple transactions)
4) Import the corrected QIF to the desired account.
5) Verify the process worked with "control totals" (I often use a Interval Net Worth Report over long period of time to verify nothing material has changed with amounts.)

Be cautious of splits, spinoffs, ... and similar transactions. I have not tested this, but I believe it would work.

leishirsute

"Edit Multiple Transactions"  is a misleading menu name since it only allows the clearance field to be changed and no other transaction fields.

Chris_QPW

leishirsute said:

"Edit Multiple Transactions"  is a misleading menu name since it only allows the clearance field to be changed and no other transaction fields.

It is sort of misleading, but I don't know what else would be a good name for it.  You can also delete and duplicate transactions with it.