What exactly does this error message mean?

Question

If I try to change the category of a group of transactions using Find & Replace I get this message.  If I manually open up one of the transactions in question and change the category I can do so with no problem.  I have literally hundreds that I would like to change so doing them one at a time is not really an option.

Thanks

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UKR · Answer

Can you give us an example of such a recategorizing action?

Sometimes, you can rename a category or assign a subcategory to a different parent category, thus eliminating the need for many split transaction edits …

splasher · Answer

The find/replace process does not work on the individual lines in a split transaction.  In other words, you can only do the find/replace on transactions that show a category in the register and not the word split.