How do I change the description on a transaction without changing all descriptions with the same wording?

When you edit the reference field you are only editing that field on that transaction only. Memo fields are the same.

If you are editing the description of Item/Product you may be asked if you wish to change the default to this new value. As Nancy Reagan said, Just Say No. 

If you are not given a choice and it changes all instances then at some time in the past you checked a box to hide the popup related to description changes and will have to bring back all messages

Sorry.  How do I unhide the message?  Thank you.

Hello, stacey-ikonikgol. 

Thank you for getting back to us. Before we can accomplish your goal for today, can you tell me more of your concern what transaction are you trying to edit? Is it on message on the invoice or message on the statement?    

In the meantime, you can check out this article to show the pop-up blocker in QuickBooks: Why doesn't anything happen when I select a button or link?  

Hope to here from you soon. Stay safe!

Under Banking transactions:  My description is 4439 ACH TRANS Preauthorized Debit, Payee is empty and Assigned To is unclassified category.  There are 3-4 pages of these transactions with the same description.  I have to populate the correct information into each individual transaction.  However, when I try to change one transaction, many of the other transaction automatically populate with the same information.  How do I change each individually without automatically populating others?  I did not enter the original transactions and I am unable to figure out why this is happening or how to correct it.  I did confirm there is no rule associated with this.  Thank you..

THANK YOU!!! You solved my problem