I’ll send this again but this time I’ll remember to send it to the whole GnuCash Users list! Oops. On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM Edwin Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you, Gyle! I think my Description Column must be as small as GC will > let me make it. It works just fine, though. Just a little odd that my > descriptions are usually fairly short and there’s a lot of blank space to > the right of each entry, yet I can’t get the Transfer Column (which has > some pretty long texts in it) to take over any of that “wasted” Description > space so the texts won’t be chopped off. Not a real problem. Just odd. > > Thanks so much for much. I love this community! > > Edwin > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM Gyle McCollam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Edwin, >> Click and drag the right border of the Transfer column to the right to >> make it the size you want. Then double click the Description Column and as >> long as it is bigger than it needs to be it will shrink so you see all the >> columns on the screen. If your columns still extend beyond the right side >> of your screen, you can click on the right border of the Description column >> and drag it to the left to reduce its size. >> >> Thank You, >> >> *Gyle McCollam* >> >> Gyle McCollam >> >> [email protected] <[email protected]> email >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* gnucash-user <[email protected]> >> on behalf of Edwin Booth <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2025 4:19 PM >> *To:* R Losey <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* Gnucash Users <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] “Rate” column >> >> Thanks!! That seems to work. Now I wish I could get the Description column >> to be a little narrower and the Transfer column a little wider. But I >> can’t >> seem to get that to work for me. >> >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Yep; I've seen that column as well. I don't know what it's for (your >> idea >> > of exchange rate may be correct), but it is a zero-width column >> normally. >> > You can collapse it and then not be bothered by it. I think you select >> the >> > column to the right of "Rate" and drag it to the left to make it >> disappear. >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM Edwin Booth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi. I hope I’m sending this to the right email address. I’m still >> kinda a >> >> Gnu-bee. >> >> >> >> I have developed a good, workable layout for my various accounts. They >> all >> >> seem to work fine with the various columns that were set up by default. >> >> There is one account that I have (one of my credit card accounts) that >> has >> >> mysteriously added a column called “RATE.” It’s at the very right edge >> of >> >> my ledger and has a whole column full of 1.000s in it (one for each >> >> entry). >> >> I am assuming that it is for some kind of foreign currency exchange >> rate >> >> or >> >> interest rate. I don’t need it and cannot get rid of it. I tried to >> find >> >> out about currency exchanges in the online manual but couldn’t find >> >> anything about a RATE column (I don’t even know how to find out what a >> >> RATE >> >> column is used for). I’d like to know how to delete it but also where >> to >> >> go >> >> in the manual to find out about adding or deleting columns. >> >> >> >> I LOVE GnuCash! >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Edwin >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> 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. >> > >> > >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > _________________________________ >> > Richard Losey >> > [email protected] >> > Micah 6:8 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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.
