On Transaction Report, cannot limit to certain Payees. All Payees show up no matter how I edit to "Include only transactions with selected payees"
I did some testing with my data, and I'm not seeing this. Limiting a Transactions by Payees report to a few selected Payees does exactly what it should. Same with a Transactions by Category report, limited to just a few Categories and a few selected Payees.
Let's go back to exactly how you are creating the report. Are you doing Transactions by Payees or Transactions by Category or something else? If this is an existing old report, try creating a new one at least temporarily:
For me, the report shows exactly what it should: only transactions for the one or two payees I selected, in the date range I specified.
Are you generating your report differently than the steps I just described?