Format to display accounts with negative balance

[Derek Atkins]

Hi Peter,

"Peter J. Puchyr" <pjpuchyr at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello list,
>
> Well, this is embarrassing.  I am a user who does the bookkeeping for my
> small company.  GnuCash has been great, and I learned enough about it
> to do what I want to do.  At some time in the past, I must have set an
> option
> which seems to have gotten lost on my new Windows 8.1 computer, and
> I can't seem to find how to get my setting back.
>
> On my Windows 7 machine, running GnuCash 2.6.5 with technicolor style,
> for reports such as Balance Sheet, accounts with negative balance display
> as -$xx,xxx.xx, which is exactly what I want.  (I am a theoretical
> physicist/
> engineer, and I think that the accounting convention of using brackets to
> indicate negative values is brain-damaged.)
>
> On my new Windows 8.1 computer, running GnuCash 2.6.7 or even 2.6.5,
> after copying my database and the files in my .gnucash directory, the
> negative
> accounts display as $(xx,xxx.xx).  I can't find any setting to change this.
>
> Would someone please point me in the right direction, for finding the option
> or switch or whatever it was that I changed in the past, to allow the
> display of
> negative values using a minus sign?

Have you tried:

Edit -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Reverse Balanced Accounts

> Thanks,
> Peter

> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available