I'm having an issue creating renaming rules for some payees. (Q Mac)

Question

Some payees have a date code in front of their names, for example a purchase on December 23 would come up as "1223PAYEENAME" on my account payee column.  When I try creating a renane rule for PAYEENAME to change to Payee Name, it doesn't recognize the payee because of the four numbers ahead of the name.  Is there a work around for this, like ####PAYEENAME or ****PAYEENAME?

jacobs · Answer

What happens if your search term is just PILATES or AMZ or MKTP? Looking at your example, these are all surrounded by spaces, and I'm wondering if that's key. I was under the impression that searches for "contains" would find any combination of those letters, but I'm curious if it's more finicky than that.

cdossel · Answer

My guess is that's not likely to happen.

UKR · Answer

Which bank is sending these weird Payee Names?
Contact their upper management and ask them to send proper Payee Names
either with a blank between date and Payee Name (0210 PAYEENAME ...)
or without the date (it's superfluous)