[GNC] Resizing columns

[Sherlock]

Hi Paul,

You appear to be referring to the Gnucash Manual instead of the Concepts 
Guide.  Here's the relevant Note from The Basics section:

In the register windows, you can resize the various columns that GnuCash 
displays, but keep in
mind that the Description and Balance columns behave differently from 
other columns.
The Description column is designed to expand automatically to fill all 
unused horizontal screen
space. Therefore you should set the widths of all your other columns 
before setting the Description
column width.
The Balance column must be resized by double-clicking on the column heading

Regards,

Sherlock


On 11/4/25 3:02 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
> Sunfish62: I looked in chapter 2 and it's about"Using this Document & 
> Getting Help"
> I didn't see any column sizing stuff in there.
> Chapter 4.3 seemed more relevant but I couldn't find anything there either.
> 
> David: Double-click enlarges the column which is good and shrinks the 
> Description
> but still when I drag the vertical bar on the left of "Transfer" to the 
> left it snaps back to where it was.
> When I drag the vertical bar on the right of "Transfer" it stays put, 
> but the
> vertical bar on the left of "Transfer" snaps to the right also when it 
> shouldn't move.
> Something is very weird about resizing.
> 
> On 11/4/2025 9:31 AM, David Carlson wrote:
>> What happens if you double click the title of any of the amount columns?
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Im running the updated 5.13 release but it happened with older
>>     ones too.
>>
>>     I can't get the ledger columns to resize properly. Works the same way
>>     with both one and Double Line view.
>>
>>     The Description field is huge, and when I try to drag the left 
>> side of
>>     the Transfer column over to shrink the Desc, all the columns
>>     Transfer and to
>>     the right drag over to the left, but when I click to put them down,
>>     they snap back to where they were. I can't shrink the Desc column.
>>     And then several of the columns are too small
>>     to see. If I drag the left side of Balance to the left, it gets
>>     larger, but
>>     then Withdrawal becomes too small to see.
>>
>>     Suggestions?
>>     Thanks!
>>