How to use the Find Transactions dialog

The Find Transactions dialog has two main parts.

• The upper part of the dialog is a Notebook with tabs that allow you to specify the conditions of your search.

  See Setting up a search for details on each search type.

• The lower part of the dialog is a selector which allows you to specify how the results of the search are to be combined with any previous search.

If you get the Find Transactions dialog by clicking the Find button in the main GnuCash window or any normal account display register, the only option available will be "New Search". If you select Find from within a Search Results register the other options will be available; see Modifying your search for details.

Most simple queries can be directly handled by a single invocation of the Find Transactions dialog. The dialog has nine tabs, each of which represents a particular field of the transaction (or split) that you can search on. If you specify conditions on multiple fields (for example, selecting one or more accounts in the Accounts tab and also entering a date range in the Date tab), a transaction must match all the conditions you specify in order to be displayed.

If simple searches are not specific enough, you can combine them by clicking the Find button in a search results window and selecting any "Type of Search" except "New search".