If you have use account numbers selected in Company Preferences it doens’t work so well. Here is a work around.
Go into Edit – Preferences, click on Accounting, click on Company. Click off Use Account Numbers. Save.
Go to Lists – Chart of Accounts. Click the tab at the bottom of the screen Reports, then Account Listing.
In Sort By click Account. You can also click Modify Report and make this change.
With use Account Number off the account number will not print on the report by default. If you want the account number click on Modify Report, then put the check box on account number.
Save the report by clicking on Memorize Report and give it a name. You can save in a group or not.
Later you can go to Reports – Memorized and print the report at any time.
Go back to preferences and click back on Use Account Numbers and Save. This will not affect the modified report.