[GNC] column widths

Tue Aug 12 00:28:45 EDT 2025

Thank you, Stan.
That's the missing bit.  I just fooled around a little bit and that worked.I expanded 'number' and it pushed the size way beyond the screen.  Double clicked 'description and it all came good'I shrank 'number'  and it shrank and Description expanded without needing any double clicks.I cannot expand 'transfer' using the left side for it just springs back.So I expand 'transfer' using the right side and it pushes the size of page to way beyond the screen, on the right there, and showing on the slider.I double click 'Description' and all springs into place.  Column sizes correct,  page size fits the screen.
You've nailed it.  Thank you for that. 

    On Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 10:33:39 am ACST, sunfish62 at yahoo.com <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:  

 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, 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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