[GNC] Sorting accounts

Michael or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Fri Mar 29 11:45:22 EDT 2019


On 3/29/2019 10:39 AM, Matthew Andrews wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> GnuCash has been working well for me, but it's beginning to get 
> cumbersome to look at.  My accounts seem to just appear in the order I 
> created them, which was just as they were needed.  It would be a lot 
> easier to read, for example, if I could put all my expenses in 
> alphabetical order.  Any suggestions on how to organize the accounts?  
> I have a tree structure, but when they're on the same level, how do I 
> change the order they appear?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~Matthew 
Rename them with a prefix that will serve to specify the collating 
order. As indicated in a response you already received, this could be 
numeric. But it doesn't have to be. Whatever you use, think ahead, so 
that you will have enough "levels" (within the prefix) to handle nesting.

Michael




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