{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/search-this-file/","title":"Search this file","description":"Find a word or phrase in journal memos, bank feed descriptions, payment notes, payslip notes and contacts across the business file, and open the match.","category":"Accounting","summary":"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.","lastVerified":"2026-10-28","apps":["app"],"processIds":[],"start":{"label":"Open Search this file","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/search-this-file"},"menuPath":["Reports","Search this file"],"before":["Permission to view accounting reports. Each area is searched only if you may see it."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Search","body":["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."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/search-this-file"},{"step":2,"title":"Open a result","body":["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 \"…\"'."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"What is searched","list":["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."],"body":["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**."]},{"heading":"Transaction ID prefixes","body":["Results and reports use these prefixes:"],"list":["**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":["https://exacc.au/help/find-and-update-transactions/","https://exacc.au/help/general-ledger-report/","https://exacc.au/help/add-bank-transaction/","https://exacc.au/help/create-general-journal/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}