[GNC] “Rate” column

[Edwin Booth]

Thank you both for your help! I won’t keep fiddling about with column
widths anymore. I kept making things worse! But finally figured out how to
put it back the way it was (though I did get ride of the RATE column). Good
to know I ain’t the only one who’s had issues with the way it works. But,
even with column weirdness, it all works fine for me.

Edwin (Happy User)

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM Ken Pyzik <pyz01 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Edwin — do not be discouraged regarding this issue.  There has been
> threads ad nauseam regarding how to get the columns to be the right length
> that you want.
>
> To me, it is overly cumbersome and not really straight forward.  Luckily,
> I have them the way I want - and I have left them alone ever since.  But it
> would be REALLY NICE if they were more like Excel or Libre Office Calc or
> other spreadsheets and could be set independently without effecting the
> other columns.  Alas, it seems that this is not really possible - so
> hopefully you can get them close to what you want — and then leave them
> alone!
>
> Ken
> ------------------------------
> *From:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=outlook.com at gnucash.org>
> on behalf of Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2025 1:19 PM
>
> *To:* R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] “Rate” column
>
> Thanks!! That seems to work. Now I wish I could get the Description column
> to be a little narrower and the Transfer column a little wider. But I can’t
> seem to get that to work for me.
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yep; I've seen that column as well. I don't know what it's for (your idea
> > of exchange rate may be correct), but it is a zero-width column normally.
> > You can collapse it and then not be bothered by it. I think you select
> the
> > column to the right of "Rate" and drag it to the left to make it
> disappear.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi. I hope I’m sending this to the right email address. I’m still kinda
> a
> >> Gnu-bee.
> >>
> >> I have developed a good, workable layout for my various accounts. They
> all
> >> seem to work fine with the various columns that were set up by default.
> >> There is one account that I have (one of my credit card accounts) that
> has
> >> mysteriously added a column called “RATE.” It’s at the very right edge
> of
> >> my ledger and has a whole column full of 1.000s in it (one for each
> >> entry).
> >> I am assuming that it is for some kind of foreign currency exchange rate
> >> or
> >> interest rate. I don’t need it and cannot get rid of it. I tried to find
> >> out about currency exchanges in the online manual but couldn’t find
> >> anything about a RATE column (I don’t even know how to find out what a
> >> RATE
> >> column is used for). I’d like to know how to delete it but also where to
> >> go
> >> in the manual to find out about adding or deleting columns.
> >>
> >> I LOVE GnuCash!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Edwin
> >>
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> > Micah 6:8
> >
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