[GNC] How to widen the 'Account' column when entering transactions

[Ken Pyzik]

Sorry -- I don't mean to be a contrarian here - but having worked with 
spreadsheets for over 35 years, the columns do NOT act/respond like 
Libre Office and Excel.  Yes, they do move by handling the right side - 
BUT they do not work like Excel or Calc .

For example, if you move the description column at the title bar and try 
to "make it smaller" it refuses and snaps back to the original length.  
THIS IS NOT spreadsheet behavior.  If I wanted to make the description 
field only 5 spaces - it is NOT allowed.  Again - this is not 
spreadsheet behavior.  Spreadsheet behavior would allow me to make the 
size of the column ANYTHING I want even if i had 100 characters in there 
- it would allow me to make it only 5 characters and wrap the text.  
GNUCASH DOES NOT DO THIS.

Then if you attempt to move other columns, the space it some how 
allocated to the description field as well.  There seems to be some 
spastic proportional spacing going on - and this is DEFINITELY not 
spreadsheet behavior.

So please - you can say justify it anyway you want and you can say you 
are OK with this odd behavior - but it is NOT spreadsheet behavior.   I 
have learned to live with it.  I still really enjoy and use the product. 
  But please everyone, stop saying it is spreadsheet behavior.  It is 
not.

Ken




------ Original Message ------
>From "Adrien Monteleone" <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
To gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Date 3/11/2026 1:03:29 PM
Subject Re: [GNC] How to widen the 'Account' column when entering 
transactions

>And Number for MacOS and LibreOffice Calc. (I don't have Excel handy to test)
>
>All of those apps size a column by dragging its right-handle border in the header. If you think you are sizing by dragging the left-handle, notice instead, the column to the right does not resize, but moves, as the column to the left shrinks or grows.
>
>I'm not sure why folks think it would work any other way.
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 3/11/26 2:59 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>The Gnumeric spreadsheet app does as well. (which is where the code came from if I'm not mistaken.)
>
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