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How to customize columns in accounting documents?

Customizing columns in accounting documents helps organize financial data as needed. It makes records clearer and easier to manage.

Let's see how:

While creating an accounting document you will see an option “Edit columns/formulas” as shown below:

When you click on “Edit columns/formulas” the following pop-up form will appear:

From here, you can create new columns, change the names of existing columns, “hide” a column or make it “private”, and delete a column. Let's see how:

Adding A New Column:

In case you want to add a column, start by clicking on “Add New Column”:

Changing A Column Name:

If you want to change the existing column name, click on the Column Name and start editing as shown below:

Hiding A Column OR Making It Private:

Make the column private
Hide the column

Private: If you mark a column as “private”, it will no longer be visible to you or your client:

**Hide: **When you hide a column, it will be visible to you but not to your clients:

Deleting A Column:

In case you want to delete/remove a column, just click on “remove”:

Please note that you can only delete or remove the custom columns you created, not the document's default columns.

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Updated on: 09/07/2025

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