Adding categories to multiple transactions with blank category fields.

Question

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?

Stephe36 · Answer

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

Rocket J Squirrel · Answer

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.

NotACPA · Answer

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