[GNC] Accidentally hid two columns - can't get them back

Daffy Duck suffsuccotash at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 10:00:54 EDT 2020


That did it, thanks!

On Fri, 2020-10-02 at 08:25 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I just did this intentionally as a test.
> I had no problems re-expanding the columns.
> But the key to remember is *drag right*. You only adjust a column
> using the right-hand header divider.
> If you collapsed both the Debit (increase) column and the 'R' column
> (reconciliation status) then you'll see a thicker line in the header
> on each line. (Turn on View > Double Line to see the second line in
> the header)
> Carefully hover to the right of that thick line till you get the
> left-right-arrow cursor and then click and drag right to expand.
> In my test, this revealed the 'R' column first.
> I then repeated this for the remaining thick divider and revealed the
> Debit/increase column.
> Tip* - double click a header to auto-size that column to the
> contents.
> If you end up with a horizontal scroll situation, click and drag the
> right-hand header divider of the Description column *far* to the left
> and let it go. It will auto-adjust and snap back to fill the
> difference.
> Regards,Adrien
> On 10/1/20 11:43 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> > I was hoping another user who has experience with either release
> > 4.1.or 4.2could comment on the current state of register column
> > recovery
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 11:22 PM Daffy Duck <suffsuccotash at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > > So you have to keep using general journal view to deal with that
> > > accounttill this is fixed, because I accidentally shrunk a
> > > column?
> > > :(
> > > On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 23:16 -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> > > A temporary work-around would be to open the General Journal then
> > > searchfor Account Matches Any Account then select that account in
> > > the drop downlist.  I am not sure about a better solution that is
> > > reliable for alldisplays
> > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:58 PM Daffy Duck <
> > > suffsuccotash at gmail.com>wrote:
> > > I can sort of get to it through tabbing, but not really.  CAn you
> > > pleasetell me what to do?
> > > On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 22:56 -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> > > This question or some variation comes up often enough that it
> > > might be agood idea to have a button somewhere to reset that
> > > register view to thedefault column widths.  What do others think?
> > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:38 PM Daffy Duck <
> > > suffsuccotash at gmail.com>wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I was resizing some columns on a liability account, and now I
> > > can't seethem or get them back
> > > Increase
> > > and
> > > R
> > > columns.
> > > What to do?
> > > gnucash-4.1-1.fc32.x86_64
> 
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