I just double-click on the columns so that they adjust to needed width, and I do the Description one last, since it auto-adjusts.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM Edwin Booth <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you both for your help! I won’t keep fiddling about with column > widths anymore. I kept making things worse! But finally figured out how to > put it back the way it was (though I did get ride of the RATE column). Good > to know I ain’t the only one who’s had issues with the way it works. But, > even with column weirdness, it all works fine for me. > > Edwin (Happy User) > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM Ken Pyzik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Edwin — do not be discouraged regarding this issue. There has been >> threads ad nauseam regarding how to get the columns to be the right length >> that you want. >> >> To me, it is overly cumbersome and not really straight forward. Luckily, >> I have them the way I want - and I have left them alone ever since. But it >> would be REALLY NICE if they were more like Excel or Libre Office Calc or >> other spreadsheets and could be set independently without effecting the >> other columns. Alas, it seems that this is not really possible - so >> hopefully you can get them close to what you want — and then leave them >> alone! >> >> Ken >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* gnucash-user <[email protected]> >> on behalf of Edwin Booth <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2025 1:19 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. >> > -- _________________________________ 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.
