I can’t say for certain, but this *might* be solved by switching to ‘Transaction Journal’ and ‘Double Line’ as defaults. I did that long ago and I’ve never had to re-size anything and I slightly recall constant fidgeting with column widths before hand.
Regards, Adrien > On Jun 5, 2018, at 5:34 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > The column width settings for each account are retentive between sessions > as well as several other settings that can be set to desired defaults for > new windows in the preferences, but that has to be repeated if you use more > than one machine. I think there was an enhancement request once to make > some fields have automatic line wrap, but I am not sure. The developers do > not have time to design windows to be universally adaptable to every > possible combination of screen resolution, font size, number of characters > in a field, etc., and I think that they have done a good job of > accommodating the majority of users. > > David C > > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Info <info8...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there a way to make a global setting (for all accounts in this file) to >> display all the contents in every field when the account register is opened >> to any account? We have to manually adjust every account to be able to see >> the Num and the posting accounts immediately after the description. We know >> how to do that, but we have to do it for every account. Hopefully this can >> be done with a setting. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.