New to Quickbooks and I have a very basic request.

I want to run a transaction detail by a specific account and export it to excel for analysis.

This is what I have tried so far;

Chart of accounts; tick box next to account number; Account History; Run Report;  Gives me sub accounts; when exporting to Excel; prints the entire chart of accounts.

Reports; Transaction Detail by account; Where is the option for selecting the account I want to look at?

Click on the Account through the Balance Sheet; Shows the transactions; Export to excel; prints the entire chart of accounts.

It can't be this hard?