Paul, You made your account numbers part of the account names. I don't have any explanation why they are not sorting alphabetically,(*) but I do have something easy you can try.
All of my accounts have four-digit numeric Account Codes in the Accounts tab. Without my doing anything special in Gnucash, the accounts appear in Account Code order in every report I've tried. So my suggestion is to assign your account numbers as Account Codes to the accounts that aren't sorting as you wish, and see if that helps. You need not remove the numbers from the account names. You don't have to click the Edit button for each account in turn. Just make Account Code one of the columns on the Accounts tab, and then a double-click in that column will let you edit the Account Code in place. I suggest doing this initially for just your six Current Assets subaccounts, because if it doesn't work as desired then I think something else must be going on. The account picker that pops up when you enter transactions sorts alphabetically rather than by Account Code; so does the Accounts pane itself. If your account numbers are the first part of your account names, as they are now, I'm pretty sure the account picker will be ordered by account code, which might be helpful. However, I don't have account numbers as part of my account names, and I've observed when entering a transaction I can type either the Account Code or the beginning of the account name when entering a transaction; the Account Code (if I type it) automatically changes to the associated account name. (It would have been a good idea to tell us which version of GC and which operating system you're using.) (*) You wouldn't have different non-printing characters at the start of your account names, would you? Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2025-03-09 11:34, Paul Roberts wrote: > When I print a Balance Sheet, the asset accounts appear in an order > different from the order they appear in the Chart of Accounts; i.e., not > alphanumeric order. > > 1200 Current Assets > 1205 Float in Cash Box $30.00 > 1202 Lost Chords Fund $1,903.91 > 1203 Devon James Bolton Mental Health Fund $4,610.84 > 1206 ISCU Shares $6.56 > 1201 Checking Account $9,086.44 > 1204 Savings Account $100,037.92 > > I have specifically prefixed my account names with numbers so that they > would be sorted correctly. > > The order of accounts in the rest of the Balance Sheet is correct. > > Any ideas? > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
