Changing the right-most column width

[Derek Atkins]

Ah, but that's the key.  Once the horizontal scroll bar appears you can
finally REDUCE the size of the description column by dragging it's right
size to the left!

-derek

On Wed, November 30, 2016 4:39 pm, Dave H wrote:
> Ah yes I think I see the issue now that I've tried dragging it out a few
> inches - my balances are only ever in the tens of thousands so I've never
> needed to expand it that far :-(
>
> It seems you can only expand the Balance column so far and after you let
> go
> the mouse button the Description shoots out and expand to fill all the
> additional space you've dragged out to and the horizontal scroll bar
> appears.
>
> I don't mind the UI - maybe I've gotten used to it after a few years of
> using it.
>
> Cheers Dave H.
>
> On 1 December 2016 at 03:53, Dean Gibson <gnucash.stuff at mailpen.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yep, done that MANY TIMES (and just now verified again w/ your
>> instructions).  Drag the right border (the "vertical double lines") to
>> the
>> right, five INCHES past the right window border of GnuCash.  When the
>> mouse
>> button is released, the only column width that changes is the
>> description.
>>
>> Even if that were to work, it's a terrible UI.  And then, after all that
>> fun, you have to do it again for the next transaction window.
>>
>> On 2016-11-30 01:50, Dave H wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have an issue on Windows 7, 8 or 10 and 2.6.14 making the
>>> Balance column wider that double clicking the column header gives me,
>>> although there's a bit of a trick to it I guess.
>>>
>>> I have GnuCash setup so it's not quite full screen - about 2-3 cm's of
>>> screen either side of the GnuCash window on a 23 inch monitor. Then I
>>> very carefully move the cursor to the right hand side of the Balance
>>> column until it changes shape into the vertical double lines with the
>>> horizontal double ended arrow across them - this sometimes takes a bit
>>> of trial and error.
>>>
>>> Once it's changed shape I then left click and hold and drag to beyond
>>> the right hand edge of the GnuCash window, which is why you need a bit
>>> of screen space to the right of the GnuCash window.  Then I let go of
>>> the mouse button and double click in the Description column header to
>>> size it back down a bit which pulls back the Balance column to be
>>> completely within the gnucash window.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Cheers Dave H.
>>>
>>
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