[GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

[Adrien Monteleone]

The term is Print 'dialog'. I attached a screenshot illustrating the 
location of the export function.

Across the top is the app menu, containing sub-menus. Print is not one 
of them. (Print is however a function in the File menu, which brings up 
the Print dialog.)

This terminology is clearly used and the menus fully described, along 
with where each function is in each menu in the Manual.

Yes, terminology matters if you are seeking assistance. Using mixed 
references just wastes time while others try to figure out what you are 
describing.

That aside, yes, I figured you were referring to the Print Dialog 
(rather than a menu) and no, the option to Export is not there. Why 
would you expect it to be? That dialog is for *printing*. (and for a 
report, not the book, at that.)

While every app can do its own thing, operations like opening, saving, 
duplicating, renaming, exporting and importing files are usually and 
customarily located in the File menu. And indeed, that is where the 
Export function is. (clearly explained in the Manual—hint, hint.)

You *can* 'print to file' on any report, but that is just storing the 
report in its same form, outside of GnuCash. You'd still have to 
open/import that into a spreadsheet to further play with the layout or 
adding formulas. You don't need to 'print to file' in order to do this. 
You can also Copy-All while viewing a report and then Paste directly 
into your spreadsheet app.

Exporting creates a CSV directly, which can either then be processed by 
scripts or other apps, or opened in a Spreadsheet app.

Thus you have several options for getting your data outside of GnuCash 
to then present and make pretty as you wish.

Regards,
Adrien

On 10/28/22 10:47 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:08 AM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/27/22 2:12 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
> 
> 
>> Print menu? There is none.
>>
> 
> Then what would you call the window labeled Print that appears when you
> enter Ctl-P from a Report?
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