[GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

Stan Brown the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm
Fri Mar 24 13:58:44 EDT 2023


>>> On Mar 24, 2023, at 10:35 AM, R. Victor Klassen
>>> <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I use a transaction report for what you seek.  With the right
>>> options I get the account, date, description and amount.  Copy
>>> paste the result into a spreadsheet

>> On Mar 24, 2023, at 12:41 PM, Brook Milligan <brook at nmsu.edu> wrote:
>> Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but how do you copy/paste the
>> result into a spreadsheet.
>> 
>> My understanding is that the reports are HTML documents.  Perhaps
>> there is some magic I am not aware of?

On 2023-03-24 09:50, R. Victor Klassen wrote:
> What works for me is just selecting the contents of the report and
> doing copy.  Then opening a spreadsheet and doing paste

Excel will also open an HTML file directly, in the File » Open dialog.
(That's Excel 2010 in Windows 10. I can't imagine later versions would
have lost that capability, but I don't know about Excel in other OSes.)

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com


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