[GNC] Trying out GnuCash

[Liz]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 16:52:41 -0400
Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> On 10/6/2025 11:16 AM, R Losey wrote:
> > GnuCash has a wide variety of reports, but they need to be
> > configured to give you what you need/want.
> >  
> ALERT for somebody new. Gnucash is slightly odd in that you do not 
> (cannot) set report parameters until after the report exists. So you 
> FIRST open the report (default settings) and then use edit => report 
> options to change the parameters to what you want/need. I strongly 
> suggest that for each report you plan to use, explore the parameter 
> options available. AFTER EXPLORING, if you can't find settings that
> do what you want, ask.
> 
> Michael D Novack
> 

To which I would add
SAVE the report as a custom report, with a name which is meaningful to
you.
That relieves the pain of trying to recreate reports.

Liz