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John C. Polasek
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 Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Report column width too wide |
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My report has months for columns, but12 is too wide for the page.
Even rounding to the dollar left the columns fat. There may have been
a "fit to page" but no luck.
Finally I copied to clipboard, to Excel where I could manage it.
In addition I employed conditional formatting to highlight in red
where amount was less than $10, a spectacular improvement.
Has Quicken done anything to improve this area? (Q05). |
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R. C. White
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:05 am Post subject: Re: Report column width too wide |
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Hi, John.
How about grabbing the column divider in the header bar and dragging it left
or right? The usual Windows trick of double-clicking on this bar does not
auto-adjust it to fit the longest entry in the column, but the grab-and-drag
usually does work. Your reformatting might not survive closing and
reopening the report unless you specifically save it with a new name.
You've hit on one of my favorite gripes about Quicken. Maybe this is why I
use very few Reports. A closely-related gripe is that I can't really sort
properly on the columns because the column headings don't match the tabs in
the Customize screens. But that's a gripe for another day. :>(
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
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My report has months for columns, but12 is too wide for the page.
Even rounding to the dollar left the columns fat. There may have been
a "fit to page" but no luck.
Finally I copied to clipboard, to Excel where I could manage it.
In addition I employed conditional formatting to highlight in red
where amount was less than $10, a spectacular improvement.
Has Quicken done anything to improve this area? (Q05). |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: Report column width too wide |
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:05:17 -0500, "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net>
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Hi, John.
How about grabbing the column divider in the header bar and dragging it left
or right?
Thanks for the suggestion, but |
there is no divider line; the header is completely featureless (Q05).
If you click on an entry, an attractive-looking text box appears that
defines the width, but it too is immutable.
The 1st column, Class, is at least 40 characters wide and my fattest
title is 9.
Dropping cents makes columns 5 characters wide but they are making
room (maybe?) for the date header which is completely verbose. I
would like "Jan." instead of the 1/31/2008.
Intuit is simply not interested in fixing the basics, only trying to
find a new gimmick to add on for new sales. Have they ever asked for
or acted on suggestions?
| Quote: |
The usual Windows trick of double-clicking on this bar does not
auto-adjust it to fit the longest entry in the column, but the grab-and-drag
usually does work. Your reformatting might not survive closing and
reopening the report unless you specifically save it with a new name.
You've hit on one of my favorite gripes about Quicken. Maybe this is why I
use very few Reports. A closely-related gripe is that I can't really sort
properly on the columns because the column headings don't match the tabs in
the Customize screens. But that's a gripe for another day. :>(
As long as we're into add-ons, why don't they allow for dot-tabbing so |
you can follow a line across what is in many cases a lot of white
paper.
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R. C. White
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Report column width too wide |
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Hi, John.
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there is no divider line; the header is completely featureless (Q05).
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Oh. I haven't used Q05 in, oh, about 3 years and my brain cell capacitors
can't keep my memory refreshed that long. :^{
As I said, I don't use Reports very much, so I hope someone else can jump in
and help you find a solution.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"John C. Polasek" <jpolasek@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:05:17 -0500, "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net
wrote:
Hi, John.
How about grabbing the column divider in the header bar and dragging it
left
or right?
Thanks for the suggestion, but
there is no divider line; the header is completely featureless (Q05).
If you click on an entry, an attractive-looking text box appears that
defines the width, but it too is immutable.
The 1st column, Class, is at least 40 characters wide and my fattest
title is 9.
Dropping cents makes columns 5 characters wide but they are making
room (maybe?) for the date header which is completely verbose. I
would like "Jan." instead of the 1/31/2008.
Intuit is simply not interested in fixing the basics, only trying to
find a new gimmick to add on for new sales. Have they ever asked for
or acted on suggestions?
The usual Windows trick of double-clicking on this bar does not
auto-adjust it to fit the longest entry in the column, but the
grab-and-drag
usually does work. Your reformatting might not survive closing and
reopening the report unless you specifically save it with a new name.
You've hit on one of my favorite gripes about Quicken. Maybe this is why
I
use very few Reports. A closely-related gripe is that I can't really sort
properly on the columns because the column headings don't match the tabs
in
the Customize screens. But that's a gripe for another day. :>(
As long as we're into add-ons, why don't they allow for dot-tabbing so
you can follow a line across what is in many cases a lot of white
paper.
RC
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