Please - Making "Hide" easier to find

[MerrittMarkA]

Mark,

Whenever I need to hide an investment, I tear my hair out trying to remember where it is hidden on the menu. File | File Operations | Hide ... is simply not where my brain thinks this should be, I suppose.

I intuitively right click on the object of my desires, because right clicking on anything in the Windows world is how you go about manipulating that object.

A right click Hide|Unhide when focused on an individual investment would make a lot of sense, I think. Offering it as a task bar button would also be a nice touch. A cute little half faded icon would make visual sense there.

Thanks for considering it.

[Mark]

Hi MerrittMarkA,

The "Hide Sold Investments..." command is for bulk hiding or un-hiding. You can right mouse click on the investment, but you choose "Properties...", and then under the "Other" tab is the "Hidden" attribute. I can understand wanting to make it a higher level and maybe toolbar option. We can consider this...

[MerrittMarkA]

Ah! Missed it there. While we are on the subject, can we get the sub menus under properties to stop jumping around when we click on them?

I have found myself frequently wandering around this dialog box feeling like I'm playing a game of whack-a-mole as the menu moves on me. Then I lose track of where I've looked and where I haven't yet looked.

One of those things that you don't notice when you are intimately familiar with an interface, versus being in learning mode.

Thanks!

[Mark]

Hi MerrittMarkA,

Are you talking about the tabs along the top of the "Investment Properties..." dialog? That is a standard Windows dialog control, so I'm not sure we can easily change that...

[MerrittMarkA]

Yes, Investment Properties - 9 tabs titled Statistics, Other, Internet Retrieve, Income, Custom, General, Investment Goal, Asset Type and Sector.

It's maddening that they hop around like that. Nine tabs is a lot of tabs. Perhaps it's less noticeable when there are fewer.