Accounting data must often be displayed in rows and columns to be comprehensible. Unfortunately, as the amount of information about individual entries grows, displays often exceed screen width. And that sometimes means a lot of scrolling back and forth to enter, edit, or read data.

Activating compact mode

If your screen width is limited, Manager’s navigation pane can be minimized to gain valuable space by clicking the symbol at the bottom corner of the Manager window, eliminating tab names and record count windows and leaving only icons:

As you scroll over the icons, the tab names will be visible:

Click again to restore to full width. (Note the icon will be a different color when compact mode is activated):

Viewing in very small windows or on mobile devices

Once the Manager window becomes too narrow for compact mode to be practical, or when viewing on a mobile device, the side navigation pane is replaced by a scrollable horizontal bar for tab selection near the top of the window:

The compact mode control icon still functions, reducing tab labels to only icons: