Alternating the color of cells does not work

[David Carlson]

On 4/11/2015 10:14 AM, geo909 wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015, at 10:31 AM, David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash] wrote:
>> On 4/10/2015 4:36 PM, geo909 wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am not able to set an alternating cell color in the default,
>>> plain, or any
>>> other stylesheet. I made sure I saved my changes and reloaded.
>>> Example screenshot here <http://postimg.org/image/4h72dg809/> .
>>> Any ideas why this happens and how I can fix it?
>>> Version:
>>> $gnucash --version
>>> GnuCash 2.6.6
>>> This copy was built from rev 132c9e3+ on 2015-04-01.
>>> I am using arch linux.
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>> I think you are confusing the word alternate with the word
>> alternating,
>>
>> and you may be looking in the wrong place for the result. Does this
>>
>> program release (2.6.6) work differently for you than previous
>> releases?
>>
> I'm pretty new with gnucash, it's the first time I want to play with the
> styles. You are probably right, I was thinking an alternating color,
> like the alternating grey - soft grey in the accounts tab, or the
> green-yellowish green for the ledgers.
>
> In http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/change-style.html it
> says "Alternate Table Cell Color: Opens the color picker to choose a new
> color for alternate table rows." I thought this is what it means.
>
>> While I do not know the program well enough to tell you exactly what
>>
>> that alternate color in tables setting actually does in the
>> Edit > Style
>>
>> Sheets menu, I too do not see any effect in the Budget Report
>> as viewed
>>
>> in the program in Windows 7. I will conjecture that it may apply to
>>
>> reports only when they are exported and viewed in a web
>> browser, but the
>>
>> budget report may not even be using a table structure to display it's
>>
>> data. Also, alternate color may apply to all table cells to make them
>>
>> visible against a white background.
>>
> I played a bit with the backgrounds, but no matter the background color,
> the alternate row color settings does not affect anything, still. It
> doesn't make any difference either, when exported to html. Also, I tried
> all sorts of reports, and not only the budget report, and it never makes
> a difference. Could that be a bug?
>
>
>
>> I am using GnuCash 2 6 6 in Windows 7.
>>
>>
>> David C
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geo909,
You definitely did your research!
Did you try farleykj's suggestion of looking at portfolio reports?
It is looking like many reports that could have used the table structure 
did not, for whatever reason.

David C