Cannot See the digits to the left of hundreds

[Steve Juniper]

That is exactly what I very carefully do. Move the deposit right
margin to the right (making the next column smaller). The scroll bar
appears, I move the description right bar to the left but when I
release it it jumps back to where it was.

Steve

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, September 2, 2011 10:49 am, Steve Juniper wrote:
>> Thank you but that doesn't work. When I try to resize the other
>> columns, such as the balance column, it not only jumps back to the
>> former size but the description column becomes bigger, crowding the
>> columns to the right until they disappear, or become single digit
>> wide.
>
> It works for me.
>
> I grab the right side of the deposit column, click and drag it to the
> right.  This makes the deposit column larger and a scrollbar appears.
> Then I grab the right of the description column and click/drag it left to
> make the description column smaller.
>
> Lather, rinse, repeat with different columns.
>
>> With scroll bar present I can only move the border between number and
>> description to the right which only makes the number column wider (not
>> needed) and the description smaller without being able to make the
>> deposit, withdrawal and balance columns any bigger. To make matters
>> worse, even thought I closed without saving, the GC saved the nasty
>> new column sizings. It has gone from being awkward to being unusable.
>
> You need to grab the description column from the RIGHT (between the desc
> and transfer) to make the desc column smaller.  grabbing from the left
> wont do anything useful.
>
> Try again.
>
>> Steve
>
> -derek
>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, September 1, 2011 7:17 pm, Steve Juniper wrote:
>>>> I want to move the vertical heading separator between the 'transfer'
>>>> and 'description' columns to the left so there will be sufficient room
>>>> in the 'deposit,' 'withdrawel' and 'balance' columns that I can see
>>>> all the digits but when I move that line it just jumps back when I
>>>> release it. Trying to change it by moving other column width causes
>>>> unpredictable things to happen. This on a netbook using XP.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.3F_Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
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>>>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>>       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>
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