PROBLEM SIZING BALANCE COLUMN

[Derek Atkins]

"Joel Thibault (Gnucash)" <ie37pjv02 at sneakemail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:44 PM, _ GBoor-at-comcast.net |Gnucash|
> <9viykemjbi0t at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> Colin, I completely agree with you.   I have worked with scores of similar
>> applications over the years and I have never encountered one in which
>> re-sizing the columns works like GnuCash.   Decidedly, this is one area
>> where the developers have not done what would work best.  But I had a
>> thought - don't know if it will work at all, but if you were to change your
>> type of account to something else just to work on the re-sizing problem,
>> then change it back, would it make a change that would transfer over once
>> you changed the account type back to mutual fund?   But I'm not sure if you
>> would lose any data, so please don't try that until someone else tells you
>> that you won't lose any data first...Just thinking outloud....
>
> Why that's so crazy it just might work!
>
> I tried it and I was indeed able to resize the Balance column once my
> mutual fund accounts were a different type (I chose Bank).  After
> switching back to Mutual Fund, I lost the ability to resize Balance
> again.  BUT!  The Balance column had somehow become big enough to
> display the full values.  So that's good enough.
>
> There's still a bug somewhere here, but at least I have a good
> workaround now.  Thanks for thinking outside the Mutual Fund box,
> GBoor!

As I said last week, I tried this on my Mutual Fund account and I was
able to resize the balance column just fine.  So I'm not sure what's
going on for you, I cannot reproduce your problem.

> Joel

-derek

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