[GNC] “Rate” column

[R Losey]

I just double-click on the columns so that they adjust to needed width, and
I do the Description one last, since it auto-adjusts.


On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM 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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