Reorder Sub Accounts?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Ian Konen wrote:

>Can I reorder the display of sub-accounts in the chart of accounts?  I've
>got quite a few expense accounts and they're not quite in alphabetical,
>order which makes it somewhat hard to navigate.  GnuCash 2.4.11 on Windows
>7.
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"Tag" the names.  This is a trick most programmer types know for 
controlling collating sequence (how things get sorted).

In other words, you want these things:   wxtra,  arocab, and doxter 
sorted in that order. So you rename them to  a-wxtra,  d-arocab, and 
g-doxtor. Or as is more common in accounting, use a numerical prefix in 
the name so that might be 0010-wxtra,  0020-arocab, 0030-doxtor. Later 
when editing for "pretty printing" reports you can remove the prefixes 
though for reports where a treasurer has to report to a board the 
numerical prefixes come in handy.

Michael

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