Report "magic"

[Tom Bullock]

Paul,

Thanks for your  reply.  I will have to learn about  Nautilus, since I 
have not heard about that and what it does.  Yes, your reply does fill 
out your earlier answer a little better.

Tom

On 07/03/2010 05:48 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote:
> I don't think what I do is very special. After I prepare a report, I 
> click on the icon that exports the report as html and save it in my 
> reports folder. Then I open nautilus, go to that folder and right 
> click on the report. On my system my top choice is open as spread 
> sheet in OO. You might have to choose a different option, but you need 
> to do the same thing.
>
> From that point I have to decide if I'm just dealing with a formatting 
> issue [which is pretty straightforward, or if I have to change numbers 
> and add lines. In the latter case you will have to edit some of the 
> entries to turn some text items to dates or numbers.
>
> HTH
>
> Paul
>
> --- On *Thu, 7/1/10, Thomas Bullock /<tbullock at nd.edu>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Thomas Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu>
>     Subject:
>     To: "Paul Schwartz" <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: "gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
>     Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 9:05 AM
>
>     You   said:
>
>     I'm still living in the dark ages of the 2.2 series of Gnucash,
>     and exporting reports to html, then opening with OO gives me all
>     of the flexibility I need to fix Gnucash errors or reorganize
>     reports to forms that satisfy my accountant. It has worked with
>     all OO versions that I've used. I'm currently using the release
>     from Ubuntu 9.10.
>
>     Paul,
>
>     I also use Ubuntu 9.10 which means I have GC 2.2.9 (I think).  It
>     would be a help if you could be a little more explicit about the
>     steps used in
>
>     a) Exporting reports to html, and
>
>     b) Reorganizing reports to forms satisfying your accountant via
>     OO, which I take to mean Open Office
>
>     I get the general idea,  but having a few more steps brings the
>     process into focus much better.
>
>     It would help me if you can find the time to expand on your
>     success! :^)
>
>     Thanks.  I appreciate whatever you can do.
>
>     Tom Bullock
>
>