Accounts tab balance as currency value possible for Stock accounts?

[prl]

On 16/05/12 18:10, Maf. King wrote:
> On Wed 16 May 12 17:19:45 prl wrote:
>> In our Accounts tab, all our stocks (Assets>Shares>..., Type=Stock) show
>> up as a count of shares held and the exchange code in the Balance column
>> (1234 XYZ, rather than $9876.54). Since our highest price stocks have a
>> share value ~35 times our lowest price stocks, and the numbers of shares
>> we hold changes infrequently, I'd much prefer a display of value in
>> currency terms rather than a count of shares held.
>>
>> I can't work out how this can be done (apart from opening each holding's
>> account tab). Is it possible?
>>
>>
>> Peter
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> You need to add a column showing "Total (currency)",  for me currency is
>   (GBP),  I'm guessing from your email address that you'd want (AUD)
>
> You can add a column to the view by clicking the downward-pointing arrow at
> the top right of the account-tree tab (at least on my GC 2.4.10 - i'm sure
> that earlier versions were similar)
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
Thanks, Maf. That's exactly what I was looking for! I'd forgotten 
entirely about the column select menu.

Peter