CTRL-F (Find) Display column width

bob8@

The window that results from using the CTRL-F feature is always default-formatted in a very un-useful manner. Each column width is either too wide or too narrow. It’s very time-consuming to have to adjust the column widths every time I use the CTRL-F feature. The column widths I set once should be saved for future uses of this otherwise useful feature. A Quicken Rep told me over 5 years ago that this would be fixed in a future update but I’m still waiting.

Jim_Harman

I edited the title to clarify the issue, but I am confused. If I hit Ctrl-F or go to Edit > Find, I get a window titled Quicken Find where the results move among register entries.

Are you referring instead to the results when you enter a Find string at the top right of the main Quicken window, or perhaps to Ctrl-H or Edit > Find/Replace, which displays the more powerful Find and Replace dialog? Either of these displays has adjustable column widths which are not remembered from one request to the next..

Rocket J Squirrel

I think the problem is that the columns in the Search Results window are all the same width. E.g., Clr is the same width as Payee. So much of what the user wants to see is truncated. The same is true of the Find and Replace window.

The first thing I do after running either flavor of Find is to maximize the results window. Easier than trying to resize the columns.

BobM47

I totally understand where you are coming from. It's very time consuming having to adjust each of the columns everytime you use a search result. And then you have to go back and re-adjust columns if you expand the size of the box.

The other annoyance is that trying to expand the last column (Amount) requires incremental changes rather than expanding the column as it does for all of the other columns.

Allowing members to set up the columns in the configuration that they use regularly would make using the Search Results simpler to use.