[GNC] column widths

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Stan, 

Not exactly. You have to trigger the Description resizing function before it fills the space. Double clicking doors this. 

@arthur: double click the header for the Description column. It will resize to fill the horizontal space. 

⁣David T. ​

On Aug 11, 2025, 7:40 PM, at 7:40 PM, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>Arthur, I'm sorry you're having trouble. With the size of the
>Description field, you're far from alone, which is why it's in the FAQ.
>
>It may help you to think of it this way:
>
>Theorem: The width of the description field is the width of the window,
>mins the widths of all the other columns.
>
>Corollary: To resize the Description field without affecting anything
>else, resize your GnuCash window.
>
>Corollary: If you increase/decrease the width of any other field, the
>Description field shrinks/grows by that same amount.
>
>Stan Brown
>Tehachapi, CA, USA
>https://BrownMath.com
>
>On 2025-08-11 16:06, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Thank you for that.  I should have stated that I'd seen the manual
>instructions and they don't work for me.To me it appears the whole
>problem is that the Description does NOT resize to fit.If it did all
>would be well.The 'instruction' itself contains a contradiction I
>think.  If the Description resizes then we don't need to size
>everything else first, as it suggests and the resize Description do
>we?  Resizing everything else would  be suffice.  Description looking
>after itself.Or, to put it another way:  rezing Description is as easy
>as resizing anything else: for whatever you resize leads to an
>immediate alteration in Description size.But that IS the problem.Such
>actions do not lead to an alteration in Description size.  Not on my
>computer,  this (win10) computer.Resizing something else to make it
>bigger, say,  leads to the overall dimensions of the page being bigger
>than the screen.Making something smaller leaves one with a column
>smaller than it should be, than is useful, and now I'm faced with the
>problems of making it big again.For instance right now.  I have a page
>that is somewhat larger than the screen - the slider shows perhaps one
>inch available on the right.I make the overall page smaller using the
>left of the date column and now I have three inches on the slider.I put
>it back where it was and attempt to make  more room for the date. 
>Exaggerate it to four inches for the date.  Does Description shrink to
>accommodate this?  No. The slider simply shows I have now four inches
>available on the rights.I want  more room in Transfers?  I expand
>Transfers using the side away from Description to avoid the uncertainty
>of its operation and suddenly I've got  more 'hidden space' on the
>left.  The slider showing room on the left.I go back and reduce that
>Date I exanded earlier and - suddenly BAM !  It's all okay.That's where
>it is now  I won't touch it again.How it happened, what the procedure,
>the rationale is,  I don't know.Best I can come up with is:  fidget and
>fidget but don't use the bounds of Description and suddenly it will
>come right when its ready.So all's well that ends well.  That appears
>to have ended well.    :)
>> 
>> 
>>    On Monday 11 August 2025 at 10:36:22 pm ACST, sunfish62 at yahoo.com
><sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:  
>>  
>>  Specifically:
>https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/basics-running-gnucash.html#basics-register2
>> 
>> ⁣David T.​
>> 
>> On Aug 11, 2025, 8:59 AM, at 8:59 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
><gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>> This is covered in the Guide.
>>>
>>> ⁣David T.​
>>>
>>> On Aug 11, 2025, 2:34 AM, at 2:34 AM, arthur brogard via
>gnucash-user
>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>> On my ledger pages the description column  takes up 75% of the room
>>> and
>>>> I don't seem to be able to change it.I can move the right border
>okay
>>>> but it just snaps back when I let go.Moving the left border is fine
>>> but
>>>> that just makes the num field big and pushes everything on the
>right
>>>> off screen...Is it possible to control this..  ?
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