[GNC] Resizing columns
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 5 10:34:37 EST 2025
Did you in fact click and drag the right side of the Description column to the left and then release?
Are you looking at the *Guide* for section 2.3.5? Did you click the link i provided?
David T.
On Nov 5, 2025, 7:46 PM, at 7:46 PM, Paul Kinzelman <paulkinzelman at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/4/2025 10:00 PM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Keep the replies on the list, please.
>Sorry, it looked like you replied to just me so I replied thusly too.
>>
>> 2.3.5 is at
>>
>https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/basics-running-gnucash.html#basics-register2
>>
>> First question: why are you double clicking the Withdrawal column to
>> resize the Balance column?
>I'm just trying various things to figure out how the column sizing
>works.
>Your hint about clicking on the column header from right to left is
>very helpful and not at all obvious to me. I was just completely
>confused.
>>
>> Second: Doesn't your screen have a scroll bar along the bottom of the
>
>> register window?
>Yes. Duh! That was dumb of me. So I can see the rest of the balance,
>but
>then when I scroll right,
>I lose part of the date even as the Description is huge so there's no
>reason to lose anything.
>The Description column is not being shrunk.
>>
>> Third: Others have noted that resizing columns works best from right
>> to left: double click the balance heading, followed by Withdrawal,
>> Deposit, etc. The final step is to grab the *right* edge of the
>> Description column and drag it fully to the left and release. The
>> Description column will then fill up the remainder of the window
>> width. (For the record, the Note does describe this process, just a
>> little cryptically).
>When I do that, I get reasonable sizes for each column from Transfer to
>
>Balance, but it doesn't
>shrink the Description to fit the window so I get a scroll bar and have
>
>to move around. If I maximize
>the window then I do get all the columns displayed without a scrollbar.
>Thank you. But I still can't shrink the window less than the entire
>screen without losing the end
>columns and getting a scroll bar. It should shrink the Description to
>fit according to your directions.
>But what you told me does help, thanks!
>It does seem like it'd be easier and much less confusing to just have
>users
>move the columns where they want and have them stay put.
>
>And about documentation...
>How do I get to 2.3.5?
>Again, when I go to Support | Documentation | Table of Contents | 2
>it goes to only 2.2 and when I go thru the pages of chapter 2, I get:
>2
>| Next | 2.1 | Next | 2.2 | Next 3.1
>
>And when I go to Downloads | Documentation I don't get anything to
>download, it goes to the
>same place as Support | Documentation
>
>>
>> David T.
>> On Nov 5, 2025, at 9:46 AM, Paul Kinzelman <paulkinzelman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I can't find 2.3.5
>> Going to the documentation either download or support, I can't
>> download, all I can do
>> is page by page and Ch 2 ends at 2.2 and when I go Next, it goes
>> to chapter 3.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> I tried your note but the windows still act weirdly.
>>
>> With even almost the whole screen width
>> (and also even with the window maximized),
>> I see only 1/2 the balance column.
>> Then when I double-click the Withdrawal,
>> that column gets wide enough, but it shrinks the Balance so I see
>> only 1/2 of the column. When I click on Balance, I now see the
>whole
>> thing only if the window is maximized. If I shrink
>> the gnucash window to be less than maximize,
>> I lose 1/2 the Balance column. I can see it trying to expand
>> automatically
>> like you said in your reply,
>> but it's really not doing the right thing if the window isn't
>> maximized.
>>
>> Why not just allow the user to move the columns around wherever
>> they want? Wouldn't it be more intuitive as well as
>> the code would be a lot easier to write too?
>>
>> I like to balance my statement against gnucash and display them
>both
>> on the laptop screen so I can't really maximize it.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> On 11/4/2025 8:10 PM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Apparently, you didn't read 2.3.5, which includes the following
>>> note:
>>>
>>> Note
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> David T.
>>> On Nov 5, 2025, at 4:44 AM, Paul Kinzelman
>>> <paulkinzelman at gmail.com> 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!
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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