Sorting accounts

[Derek Atkins]

If you entered account codes then accounts are sorted based on
those codes, first.  All coded accounts will be sorted first,
and then accounts without account codes will be sorted next.
So if you have four accounts, two with codes and two without,
it's possible to have the accounts look like:

  2
  4
  1
  3

Click on Edit Account for the accounts that don't sort correctly
and take a look at the account codes there.

-derek

Leslie Katz <lesliek at ozemail.com.au> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Accounts are sorted alphabetically withing a group... Except account
>> codes take presedence over account names.  Did you enter account codes
>> for your accounts?
>>
>> -derek
> Thanks very much for your reply, Derek.
>
> I did enter account codes for all of my original accounts, but, confused 
> at the time by various instructions in the guide, I wound up giving each 
> account a code which duplicated the name I'd already given it. For 
> example, my very first account appeared as "AGL (AGL)" and all of the 
> other accounts entered at that time followed that pattern. When I came 
> to add new accounts subsequently, I decided I'd better follow the same 
> pattern for them too.
>
> Perhaps I should add this. When I open the price editor to get the 
> latest prices for the securities concerned, I find all the of accounts, 
> including the new ones, in alphabetical order, but the same doesn't 
> apply when I look either at the accounts tab or the advanced portfolio 
> tab. In each of the latter two tabs, the two accounts I've added 
> subsequently appear at the very end of the list, in the order of their 
> adding, though, if the entire list were sorted alphabetically, each 
> would appear in about the middle of the list.
>
> I don't know whether the above additional information suggests anything 
> further to you.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Leslie
>>
>> Quoting Leslie Katz <lesliek at ozemail.com.au>:
>>
>>> I suppose this staring me in the face, but, if so, I've spent a lot
>>> of time avoiding it!
>>>
>>> I have a file which consists of a series of accounts. When I
>>> created the file, I created each account in alphabetical order,
>>> a-z. Since then, I 've added new accounts. Each new account I add
>>> takes its place at the end of the then-current list of accounts and
>>> I haven't found a facility to return the list to alphabetical order.
>>>
>>> How do I restore alphabetisation?
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