[GNC] Transaction Report: Table for Exporting

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Fred:… Pa

Sometimes things are hidden in plain sight.

On 2024-10-26 09:39, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> I am running Gnucash 5.9 on Fedora Linux 40
>
> I have done a Transaction Report
> In the General Options
> I have checked Table for Exporting
> I do not see any table
>    in either the report (at the bottom)
>    or in ~/Documents/ folder
>
> Is this
>    a bug
>    a limitation
>    user error

In the transaction report, do you see a row with column headers, 
followed by line after line of transaction listings?  That is the table.

Try selecting the headers and the lines of date, doing an Edit… Copy, 
then opening a blank spreadsheet, and do an Edit… Paste. I expect that 
you will see the headers and the lines of the transaction report in the 
spreadsheet.

This is not very well documented, but have a look at the /GnuCash 
Manual/, section 9.3.1.3. *Transaction Report* 
<https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help>. It says,

> *Table for Exporting*: Formats the table for cut & paste exporting 
> with extra cells
>
The manual does not say what "the table" is, but I understand it to mean 
the list of transactions itself.

Does this work for you?

Best regards,
     —Jim DeLaHunt