Open Reports › Search this file, type the text and click Search. Exacc lists every match in journal memos and references, bank feed descriptions, invoice and bill payment notes, pay event notes and contacts, with the transaction ID; Open takes you to it. Invoice and bill lines themselves are not searched.
Before you start
- Permission to view accounting reports. Each area is searched only if you may see it.
1. Search
Open Reports › Search this file, type into Search ("Search for this text...") and click Search. The text is matched as typed, anywhere in the field; up to 200 results show.
2. Open a result
Each row shows the transaction (Data) and the Text Found. From the row's menu choose Open or Open in New Tab. No match shows 'No results found for "…"'.
What is searched
Search this file is handy when you cannot remember how or whether you posted something. To find invoices or bills by customer, number or amount, use their own lists or Find and update transactions.
- Bank and general journals: memo, reference and line references.
- Bank feed descriptions, for feed lines already coded to a transaction.
- Invoice payment and bill payment notes.
- Pay events: the management note, payslip note and payslip comment.
- Contacts: the intro text.
Transaction ID prefixes
Results and reports use these prefixes:
- CI - cash in: money received on a bank transaction
- CO - cash out: money spent on a bank transaction
- JN - general journal
- IN - invoice; IP - invoice payment
- BL - bill; BP - bill payment
- PR - pay event
Related guides
- Change many transactions at once (Find & Update)
- General Ledger and journals reports
- Record money spent or received
- Enter a general journal
Checked against Exacc on 28 October 2026. Machine-readable version