Adding categories to multiple transactions with blank category fields.

Stephe36

Amazon credit card downloads don't have categories. In the payee field Amazon is spelled in different ways like, Amzn, Amazon.... I would like to categorize all these transactions with some generic name like, "Household." What's the best way to do this without having to enter the categories one at a time?

NotACPA

How about a FIND/REPLACE, where you'd have to do it once for AMZN and again for Amazon and then selecting the transactions that you want to replace and changing them to Household?

If you're on a newer version of Q, you could even see if it would let you do a secondary search on the blank category field

Rocket J Squirrel

You can do a single global search (or find & replace, etc.) for am..z..n.. and that should find them all. You could not only recategorize the transactions, you could edit all the payees to be identical while you're there.

Stephe36

Both responses were partially correct because I did not know Quicken well and my question was too vague.

I needed to edit transactions in a given account and for that I needed to use "Edit" then "transactions." I was at that level able to search for blank categories.

Transaction edits enable you to work only on the account you have open, which was essebtial to what I needed.

Thanks to both of you for pointing me in the right direction.

Steve