[GNC] “Rate” column

[Edwin Booth]

I’ll send this again but this time I’ll remember to send it to the whole
GnuCash Users list! Oops.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Gyle! I think my Description Column must be as small as GC will
> let me make it. It works just fine, though. Just a little odd that my
> descriptions are usually fairly short and there’s a lot of blank space to
> the right of each entry, yet I can’t get the Transfer Column (which has
> some pretty long texts in it) to take over any of that “wasted” Description
> space so the texts won’t be chopped off.  Not a real problem. Just odd.
>
> Thanks so much for much. I love this community!
>
> Edwin
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
>
>> Edwin,
>> Click and drag the right border of the Transfer column to the right to
>> make it the size you want.  Then double click the Description Column and as
>> long as it is bigger than it needs to be it will shrink so you see all the
>> columns on the screen.  If your columns still extend beyond the right side
>> of your screen, you can click on the right border of the Description column
>> and drag it to the left to reduce its size.
>>
>> Thank You,
>>
>> *Gyle McCollam*
>>
>> Gyle McCollam
>>
>> gmccollam at live.com <gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org>
>> on behalf of Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2025 4:19 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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