For example if your book name is "Vacation Home" there should be a file "Vacation Home.gnucash.gcm" in the "books" folder. You are on GnuCash v4.x right?
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 9:41 AM Gyle McCollam <[email protected]> wrote: > Glenn & Kevin, > > I just looked at the other file with Notepad and it looks identical, only > the file name is different. This file is named "##.realfile.gnucash.gcm". > So I'm not sure which file should be edited, sorry. Maybe someone else can > shed a little insight. > > > Thank You, > Gyle McCollam > > Gyle McCollam > > 609.680.2326 Mobile > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> email > > ________________________________ > From: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2022 9:31 AM > To: Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] register description field width > > Glenn, Kevin, > Glenn, I followed your instructions and navigated to > "C:\Users\#####\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books", but there wasn't a file > "MyBook.gcm". There were 2 files and I used notepad to open > "##.gnucash.gcm". When I scrolled through the file, I found a section > called [Register 8c83614b6731620734164b18c3b0cf42], that hd the setting > below which you had described. > date_width=109 > num_width=70 > reconcile_width=24 > balance_width=96 > transfer_width=357 > debit_width=96 > credit_width=96 > > Hopefully, this will help you Kevin. > > > Thank You, > Gyle McCollam > > Gyle McCollam > > 609.680.2326 Mobile > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> email > > ________________________________ > From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> on > behalf of Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2022 9:48 PM > To: Kevin T <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] register description field width > > The register width on Windows are in: > > C:\Users\#####\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books > > Just find your "book" which will be in the format MyBook.gcm > > You can change the numbers for date_width, num_width, etc. You actually > change everything *but* the description field, which takes up the rest of > the available width. > > It'll look like this: > date_width=177 > num_width=66 > reconcile_width=239 > balance_width=140 > transfer_width=290 > debit_width=116 > credit_width=116 > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 9:24 PM Kevin T <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i have scanned the directories mentioned for entries with 'description' > > and 'width'. I can find nothing that is specific to the 'Description' > > field in the support files that exist. > > > > again this is a windows install. > > > > do know what file, in what directory, with what content, you modified? > > > > Kevin > > > > > > On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 06:48:33 AM CDT, Glenn Fowler < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > If you want to hardcode the widths of columns, you can do that in user > > data. I wanted my books and accounts to all be exactly the same so I did > it > > this way. > > > > Depending on your OS, the user data locations are described here: > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 12:11 AM Kevin T via gnucash-user < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have found how to make the fonts large enough to read through > inspection > > of the mailing list history. it is now 14pt. > > This is great but now the gnucash window has to be almost, 80% of my > > screen width. 70% of that width is due to the width of the description > > field. through the mailing lists I have found that double clicking the > > vertical bars between the fields will adjust them to the width of the > > data. It works for all but the description field. This field behaves as > > if there is an extra 200 spaces attached to the end of each entry. > Trying > > to pull the right hand vertical bar will move the header, temporarily, > but > > the field width remains the same. > > Is there some way to hard code, force, change the width of the > description > > field? > > > > Kevin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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