Stan, The description column does not shrink when you adjust the other columns, although it will grow if you reduce the other columns such that the don't take up the whole window. Once you have the other columns the way you want them, you can double click on the description column and it will shrink (maybe) so that all the other columns are visible. I say maybe because if any description is really long, it will only shrink to that size. I once had a errant description that was very long and it took me a while to find it and adjust it so I could automatically adjust it to fit.
Hopefully, this helps Arthur as well. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> email ________________________________ From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> on behalf of Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2025 7:38 PM To: arthur brogard <[email protected]> Cc: GnuCash User List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] column widths Arthur, I'm sorry you're having trouble. With the size of the Description field, you're far from alone, which is why it's in the FAQ. It may help you to think of it this way: Theorem: The width of the description field is the width of the window, mins the widths of all the other columns. Corollary: To resize the Description field without affecting anything else, resize your GnuCash window. Corollary: If you increase/decrease the width of any other field, the Description field shrinks/grows by that same amount. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2025-08-11 16:06, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: > Thank you for that. I should have stated that I'd seen the manual > instructions and they don't work for me.To me it appears the whole problem is > that the Description does NOT resize to fit.If it did all would be well.The > 'instruction' itself contains a contradiction I think. If the Description > resizes then we don't need to size everything else first, as it suggests and > the resize Description do we? Resizing everything else would be suffice. > Description looking after itself.Or, to put it another way: rezing > Description is as easy as resizing anything else: for whatever you resize > leads to an immediate alteration in Description size.But that IS the > problem.Such actions do not lead to an alteration in Description size. Not > on my computer, this (win10) computer.Resizing something else to make it > bigger, say, leads to the overall dimensions of the page being bigger than > the screen.Making something smaller leaves one with a column smaller than it > should be, than is useful, and now I'm faced with the problems of making it > big again.For instance right now. I have a page that is somewhat larger than > the screen - the slider shows perhaps one inch available on the right.I make > the overall page smaller using the left of the date column and now I have > three inches on the slider.I put it back where it was and attempt to make > more room for the date. Exaggerate it to four inches for the date. Does > Description shrink to accommodate this? No. The slider simply shows I have > now four inches available on the rights.I want more room in Transfers? I > expand Transfers using the side away from Description to avoid the > uncertainty of its operation and suddenly I've got more 'hidden space' on > the left. The slider showing room on the left.I go back and reduce that Date > I exanded earlier and - suddenly BAM ! It's all okay.That's where it is now > I won't touch it again.How it happened, what the procedure, the rationale is, > I don't know.Best I can come up with is: fidget and fidget but don't use > the bounds of Description and suddenly it will come right when its ready.So > all's well that ends well. That appears to have ended well. :) > > > On Monday 11 August 2025 at 10:36:22 pm ACST, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Specifically: > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/basics-running-gnucash.html#basics-register2 > > David T. > > On Aug 11, 2025, 8:59 AM, at 8:59 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user > <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is covered in the Guide. >> >> David T. >> >> On Aug 11, 2025, 2:34 AM, at 2:34 AM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On my ledger pages the description column takes up 75% of the room >> and >>> I don't seem to be able to change it.I can move the right border okay >>> but it just snaps back when I let go.Moving the left border is fine >> but >>> that just makes the num field big and pushes everything on the right >>> off screen...Is it possible to control this.. ? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> 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 >> ----- >> 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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