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" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
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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