Format to display accounts with negative balance

[Peter J. Puchyr]

Thanks for your response, warlord.

Yes, I tried that, to no avail.

Furthermore, I checked those settings on my old system, which does what
I want, and it has the default values, just like the new system, which
doesn't.

I'm wondering if there are any user-related files, other than those in
.gnucash?
There has to be a file that's different on the two systems.  If I could just
find that file, perhaps it would tell me what to change.

Peter

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Peter J. Puchyr, M.Sc.
SpaceTime Simulation Corp
(507) 6787-0615 (cell in Panamá)

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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>
> -derek
>
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