How does one adjust column widths?

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi Richard,

Am 04.08.2012 19:32, schrieb Richard Dawson:
> I have been using Gnucash for a number of years, and finally the balance for 
> myCD broke into five digits!  A great day, but unfortunately the column width 
> for balance is too narrow to accommodate that fabulous good fortune!  the most 
> significant digit isn't displayed.  
> 
> I tried simply clicking and dragging the boundary line in the column header, 
> but that produces very strange results.  I have had good luck using that 
> technique to change the width of the check number column, but a cannot seem to 
> influence the blance width.  Also, I cannot narrow the description column.  

Because the description column is autoadjusting you must first expand
the other columns before you can shrink it. Tricky, isn't it? ;-)

> Very difficult to describe exactly what happens when I try; suffice it to say 
> it just doesn't work.
> 
> Is there some other way, a way that works, to adjust column widths?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Richard

HTH
Frank