Business Area - Substitution Rule?

Hi Gurus,
I need help with creating a substitution rule for a business area.
The scenario is as follows-
We have multiple company codes in different regions that sell their product system wise to company code XXXX. We are using one business area YYYY. What i need to do is create a substitution rule that when ever an invoice passes into accounting it automatically picks up the business area YYYY from all those other company codes selling to company code XXXX.
I am not sure how to create this rule? meaning how it should read. When i attempted to create the rule via OBBH I am not seeing the field BSEG-GSBER in the selection? This is where you chose the field & is substituted by a constant value YYYY
I tried reading some other messages that we posted online by other members. One of the suggestions made was to go SM30 or SE11 and pull table VWTYGB01 and uncheck a flag. I tried to do that but I was unsuccessful. When i go there the message i get is that it does not exist.
Please can someone help me...suggest what I can do to solve this issue?
Thank you
Mahima

Hello,
You have to go in the edit mode as suggested by Eli. You are NOT going in the edit mode but going in display mode.
Please go to SE16N
Enter the Table GB01
Maximum number of entries change to 9999
Press ENTER button on your key board.
Put your cursor on Transaction Bar (where normally you enter transaction codes to go to particular activities). Enter &sap_edit
Then press enter on your key board
You will see a message "SAP editing function is activated"
Now click on execute button.
The table will open in edit mode now. You can make changes now.
Please make sure you are changing the right entries. This is not the recommended way of doing, but sort of last means. Any erronous changes will not be reversable. I would not recommend doing this in production. Always we should be cautious when we are doing by this way.
Regards,
Ravi

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