John, this may be a silly question but GC keeps track of register column widths from session to session after they are changed. Where does that information get saved? I thought it might be in books<my book>.gcm but I'm not so sure.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:03 AM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 2020, at 12:52 PM, Ron <rcar...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > How do I re-arrange the layout of the check register to my liking? > > > > How do I get auto-fill for the payee? > > The register layout is currently hard coded, so it's "our way or the > highway", sorry. > > Auto fill works by repeating previous entries so once you've created a > transaction for a particular payee in an account you'll get auto-fill for > subsequent entries with the same description. You can fiddle that a bit by > letting autocomplete fill in based on a partial entry, tabbing through to > the debit or credit column and then tabbing back and editing the > description to what you want for the current transaction. For example, I > like the description of dividend reinvestments to include the number of > units as a cross-check. I might have > > 10/11/2019 Reinvest FMAGX 23.11 > Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Magellan Fund 251.67 > > and when it's time to do the next dividend I'll start "Reinvest FMAGX" and > let it fill in the 23.11 and tab through so that it fills in the account > for me. I'll edit the new value and then back-tab to the description and > change the number of units. When I hit enter the transfer dialog will pop > up where I'll enter the number of units again. Then when I go to reconcile > the FMAGX account if it doesn't reconcile I can check the amount against > what I put in the description and if there's a discrepancy it's a good clue > about why it doesn't reconcile. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.