Cannot See the digits to the left of hundreds

[Mike Evans]

On Friday 02 Sep 2011 16:22:44 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, September 2, 2011 10:49 am, Steve Juniper wrote:
> > Thank you but that doesn't work. When I try to resize the other
> > columns, such as the balance column, it not only jumps back to the
> > former size but the description column becomes bigger, crowding the
> > columns to the right until they disappear, or become single digit
> > wide.
> 
> It works for me.
> 
> I grab the right side of the deposit column, click and drag it to the
> right.  This makes the deposit column larger and a scrollbar appears.
> Then I grab the right of the description column and click/drag it left to
> make the description column smaller.
> 
> Lather, rinse, repeat with different columns.
> 
> > With scroll bar present I can only move the border between number and
> > description to the right which only makes the number column wider (not
> > needed) and the description smaller without being able to make the
> > deposit, withdrawal and balance columns any bigger. To make matters
> > worse, even thought I closed without saving, the GC saved the nasty
> > new column sizings. It has gone from being awkward to being unusable.
> 
> You need to grab the description column from the RIGHT (between the desc
> and transfer) to make the desc column smaller.  grabbing from the left
> wont do anything useful.
> 
> Try again.
> 
> > Steve
> 
> -derek
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, September 1, 2011 7:17 pm, Steve Juniper wrote:
> >>> I want to move the vertical heading separator between the 'transfer'
> >>> and 'description' columns to the left so there will be sufficient room
> >>> in the 'deposit,' 'withdrawel' and 'balance' columns that I can see
> >>> all the digits but when I move that line it just jumps back when I
> >>> release it. Trying to change it by moving other column width causes
> >>> unpredictable things to happen. This on a netbook using XP.
> >> 
> >> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.
> >> 3F_Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F
> >> 
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> >> 
> >> -derek
> >> 
> >> --
> >>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
> >>       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
> >>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant

Try a double click in the column header.  This works in Linux, but no idea about 
Windows.
Mike

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