Report formatting - VAT Detail

Hello, Nelly111S.

We understand how important it is to get the right size when printing your VAT report. 

The only way you can adjust the size of the print out is through your printer settings.

To learn more about troubleshooting printing issues, refer to Fix QuickBooks Online printing issues on browsers for Windows article. 

I also have a link here where you can find articles about managing your financial reports in QBO: Setting up reports to customise, run, and share. 

Please let me know if you have other concerns. I'm just around to help. Have a good day!

All the printer settings will do is to make the whole page smaller. What I want to do is resize individual columns to make the fit on the page better for the content of each column. You can resize the column, but only make it bigger, not smaller. This must be a bug?

Surely I'm not the only person who has difficulty with this, either?

Oh, and I'm on a Mac, not Windoze. Although for this, it doesn't make a difference.

Hello Nelly, You can not reduce the size of the columns however you can in the reports on the right click the cog, and under Display density tick compact and untick any columns not needed to reduce size.

Thanks Emma. I knew about the compact size - I've tried most things!

Is there any way of suggesting this as a bug fix? I don't class this as an improvement, it's a bug. Setting a report to print on A4 paper at reasonable legibility should be the bare minimum requirement for a print function !

Neil

Hello Nelly, We can put in a feedback request, we have been advised it is working as designed. We do see what you are saying with the fact you can make columns wider but not smaller however it was built that way.

Emma,

I may have been designed that way, but the design process evolves. I'd like to think that producing readable output  on A4 or Letter paper would be a reasonable thing to have as a design requirement. Please can you add this to the list of feature requests/bug fixes?

Thanks - I have submitted my feedback. 

I'm aware of the export (I think I mentioned that in the first post) but for those of us with Macs, we use Numbers, not Excel (even though Numbers can open Excel). It's just having a print function which relies on exporting to another product seems a "little clunky".

Neil @ Olivewoodturning