Renumbering subaccounts without hyphen

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Nov 12 10:53:48 EST 2013


Hi,

Cat P <barking at gmx.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
> Many thanks for you reply. My question is about renumbering (Edit >
> Renumber Subaccounts...), not renaming.
>
> It would be a very useful option to me if there was a way to get rid of
> the separating hyphen (getting, for example, 4010, 4020, 4030 instead of
> 40-10, 40-20, 40-30).
>
> Thanks for any input,

Ah, sorry, I mistread "renumber" as "rename".  I've never used this
feature so I have no answer for you.  Sorry.  (Honestly, I didn't even
know the feature existed -- and it's greyed out for me)

> Cat

-derek

>
>
> On 11/11/2013 17:04, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Cat P <barking at gmx.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if there is a way to renumber subaccounts
>>> automatically without the hyphen in between (or any other separator).
>> 
>> I am not sure I understand the question.  What "hyphen"?
>> 
>> When looking at an account's Full Name in the hierarchy it will always
>> combine each account in the tree with the account separator character;
>> there is no way around that (you can choose the character in your
>> preferences).  But an account's local name is whatever you make it, so
>> long as it is unique amongst its siblings.
>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Cat
>> 
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>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>
>

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