[GNC] Register layout

[Stu Perlman]

John, this may be a silly question but GC keeps track of register column
widths from session to session after they are changed.  Where does that
information get saved?  I thought it might be in books<my book>.gcm but I'm
not so sure.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:03 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Feb 20, 2020, at 12:52 PM, Ron <rcarr38 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > How do I re-arrange the layout of the check register to my liking?
> >
> > How do I get auto-fill for the payee?
>
> The register layout is currently hard coded, so it's "our way or the
> highway", sorry.
>
> Auto fill works by repeating previous entries so once you've created a
> transaction for a particular payee in an account you'll get auto-fill for
> subsequent entries with the same description. You can fiddle that a bit by
> letting autocomplete fill in based on a partial entry, tabbing through to
> the debit or credit column and then tabbing back and editing the
> description to what you want for the current transaction. For example, I
> like the description of dividend reinvestments to include the number of
> units as a cross-check. I might have
>
> 10/11/2019   Reinvest FMAGX 23.11
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Magellan Fund            251.67
>
> and when it's time to do the next dividend I'll start "Reinvest FMAGX" and
> let it fill in the 23.11 and tab through so that it fills in the account
> for me. I'll edit the new value and then back-tab to the description and
> change the number of units. When I hit enter the transfer dialog will pop
> up where I'll enter the number of units again. Then when I go to reconcile
> the FMAGX account if it doesn't reconcile I can check the amount against
> what I put in the description and if there's a discrepancy it's a good clue
> about why it doesn't reconcile.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
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