Reports in Gnucash 2.4

[Colin Scott]

I run the PortableApps version of Gnucash under Windows XP.

For the past year or so I have been using 2.2.9, and have developed some fairly complex spreadsheets to format and extract data from the reports gnucash produces - especially the Income&Expenditure report.

A week or so ago I installed the 2.4.0 PortableApps version, and was very disappointed to discover that the output format of some of the reports (those I have looked at!) has been changed significantly.  The old report, if pasted into Excel, used columns to provide indentation for the names of nested accounts.  The new format seems to put them into the same column.  The effect is that gnucash reports pasted into my Excel spreadsheets now no longer print correctly, and my data extraction logic is terminally broken.

So far as I can see, the changes offer no benefit over earlier versions, and are likely to affect anyone who uses Excel to work with gnucash reports (which I believe is not uncommon).  Is there some way I can revert to reports with the same output format as previously?

I seem to remember encountering a similar problem with report output formats a year or so back, but I'm afraid I don't recall any details.

Colin