Gnucash 2.2.4 windows xp home edition

[Derek Atkins]

Grab the right-hand side of the column you want to expand and then drag
it to the right...

-derek

Quoting pre installed <1023 at wxyz34.fsnet.co.uk>:

> Many thanks but your answer begs the question I am afraid of ---- how 
> to alter the size of the other columns_--. They spring back over each 
> other and leave the description column even larger, in fact so large 
> that the other columns, to the right are over each other and are not 
> readable.!! Is there a secret to the keys to press in order to expand 
> the outer columns?
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Nathan Buchanan
>  To: pre installed
>  Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>  Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:38 PM
>  Subject: Re: Gnucash 2.2.4 windows xp home edition
>
>
>  You should make your other columns wider first then try to shrink 
> your description column.
>
>  The description column is setup to grow so that 100% of the window 
> is used if any of the other columns are made smaller. This means that 
> you can not shrink the description column first - it will just 
> re-grow so that 100% of the window is used, just as you are noticing.
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:29 AM, pre installed 
> <fiona.moore29 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>    I cannot find out how to alter the column widths in account 
> registers e.g so
>    as to give less room to "description" and more to the detail of the
>    transaction. In trying to alter the column widths the credit ,debit and
>    balance columns have all  overlapped.
>
>    Can anyone please tell me the, what I have no doubt will be an all too
>    obvious but at the moment completely baffling, answer.!!!!
>
>    Many thanks
>
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