Convert foreign currency reports to USD

[George Olson]

I live in a foreign country and have many operating expenses in the 
currency of that country. However, the exchange rate with USD fluctuates 
significantly.

Last year when I was preparing my taxes, I was able to make the reports 
come out in USD, even when my expenses were in the currency of that 
country. This is nice, because the conversion to the equivalent USD goes 
with whatever the exchange rate of the date at the time of that transaction.

This year, as I am preparing my taxes, I am finding out that I cannot do 
the same as I did last year. Under the General tab under Transaction 
Reports, the Report Currency is grayed out and I am unable to select 
anything. It says USD, but the report is coming out in whatever currency 
the transaction was made in.

I am using gnucash 2.4.11 under openSUSE 12.2.

Is there a way to make my reports come out in USD? Otherwise there is a 
significant amount of extra work involved, having to export the report 
to a spreadsheet and then set up manual conversions based on the 
appropriate date.

-- 
George Olson
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