Changing the Order of Accounts

[Paula Hendricks]

i do this sort of thing all the time with my finder/ explorer, too ... i put 0- in front of my most used folders and they sort to the top and z- for those i use much much less often or are really archives (like some file for 2012).... so #s, letters.... i think #s sort before letters.
	
	ph

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On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:40 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:

> On 2/27/2015 7:26 AM, YeOldHinnerk wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Account numbers are the proper solution. There are a few shortfalls though,
>> some reports don't sort by account number but by name. But in the CoA the
>> account numbers work like a charm.
> 
> For that situation you have no choice but to alter the names of the accounts so that you can control the collating sequence that way. It isn't really THAT confusing to have prefixes to the human readable account names and a problem with the reports coming out only if you insist gnucash do final editing (instead of editing the exported reports).  But "pretty printing" is best done with an external editor in any case.
> 
> For example:  For accounts Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner you use names ac-Breakfast, af-Lunch, ak-Dinner, in which case the meal accounts will be sorted in normal meal time order BOTH in the chart of accounts and in all reports.
> 
> Michael D Novack