[GNC] “Rate” column

Mon Aug 18 17:53:53 EDT 2025

Wow! That seems to work. I’d never tried the double clicking option.
Whenever I played with column widths, I would always find the Balance
Column running off the screen to the right. But starting on the right and
double clicking seems to be the answer. Thanks!

As far as “left” and “right” clicking go, I have a MacBook Pro and it just
has a trackpad with no buttons. If someone knows how to left and right
click on that, I’d sure like to know the secret!

Thanks so much for your insight into this whole column-adjustment issue.
Sure is great to have smart people who are eager to help!

Edwin

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Edwin,
>
> Once you understand that only the description column automatically fills
> the remaining window real estate you've cracked it :-) If you make another
> column wider/smaller the Description column generally auto adjusts to grab
> what's left.
>
> What I usually do is work from right to left i.e. starting with the
> Balance column double click each header in turn forgetting about the
> Description column for the moment.  Why the right hand side first, well if
> I leave the Balance column until last it's generally pushed off the screen
> and hidden so I work in reverse order.
>
> After I have all the other columns sorted I then adjust the Description
> column by double clicking on that header - sometimes it works and sometimes
> it doesn't.  If double clicking the Description header doesn't give me the
> width I expected I then left click and hold the right side column header
> delimiter of the Description column and drag it left a few cm's and let it
> go. It then usually snaps to the width expected.
>
> Also I'm not sure you're aware of this, but in the Accounts tab itself
> there is a drop down arrow on the far right.  You can click on it to
> display a list of column headers that you can then use the checkboxes to
> turn on and off various columns that you would like to see on that
> particular tab.
>
> Cheers David H.
>
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 07:15, Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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