[GNC] Possible to display two account registers on

[Kalpesh Patel]

In Windows 10 (and probably all other host OSes?), if you double click on
any account in the Accounts Page window (windows  that opens when GNC is
launched) then it will open a new floating window for that specific account
(it doesn't open another for an account for which one floating window is
open already in which case it will bring forward that window and focus it).
Since you want to compare two different accounts, this will open up total of
3 windows - one each for two accounts and the Accounts Page initially opened
one - which should allow you to easily arrange them how you like them and
then compare them. You can have many accounts open by this floating windows
fashion to, for example, comparer n accounts at the same time if you want.

 

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 14:21:32 -0800

From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm
<mailto:the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> >

To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 

Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible to display two account registers on

                screen?

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On 2022-02-03 14:02, Art Chimes wrote:

> I'm trying to clean up some issues with an import-gone-bad which left 

> me with two accounts for the same mutual fund. There are, I think, 

> some duplicate transactions and others that appear in only one of the 

> two accounts, and I want to consolidate this. It will simplify matters 

> and speed up the process if I can see both accounts side by side. I 

> know I can print up a transaction report, and use that as a reference, 

> but is it possible to display the two accounts ? GnuFund GNUFX and 

> GnuFund GNUCX ? on screen?

> 

> If not, is it a feature GnuCash should have or is it just me?

 

Hi, Art!

 

One of GnuCash's lesser-known features makes it easy to do what you want.
And you don't have to open the data file twice.

 

Bring up one of the two registers, then click Window ? New Window with Page.
That register will be moved to a "floating" window separate from the main GC
window. Then you can bring up the other register in the main GC window.

 

You can edit either register, but don't try to edit one register while
there's an incomplete transaction in the other register.

 

--

Stan Brown

Tehachapi, CA, USA

https://BrownMath.com

 

 

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