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

[David T.]

Stan, 

Not to go too far afield, but I'm like 99.999999% certain that if you double click on the column header in Excel (the letter designations), the column width is adjusted to the widest data value in the column. At least that's my recollection.

David T. 

On March 12, 2026 2:05:30 AM GMT+05:30, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>On 2026-03-11 13:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> And Number for MacOS and LibreOffice Calc. (I don't have Excel handy to
>> test)
>
>I do, and its handling of column widths is nothing like GnuCash's. (Or
>we can say GnuCash's handling of column widths is nothing like Excel's.)
>Changing the width of one column or a group of columns in Excel has no
>effect on the width of any other column.
>
>To cause one or more columns to resize themselves to just contain the
>data, in Excel you don't double-click on a column header as in GnuCash.
>Instead you select the column(s) that you want to auto-set the width,
>and then on the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Cells section, click
>Format » AutoFit Column Width.
>
>Stan Brown
>Tehachapi, CA, USA
>https://BrownMath.com/
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