Hi jhenry
To further clarify the other suggestions...
To change the options when printing the Adagio Ledger Detailed listing, after selecting the report you will be taken to the 'Print Detail Listing' print options screen. In the 'Within Fiscal Period sort by' section, you can choose to sort by 3 different criteria: Source Code, Date, Description and Reference. Your second and third 'sort by' options will change depending on what you have chosen for your first sort.
In your case, it sounds like sorting first by Reference or Description field would give you the results you are seeking.
If this does not give you what you are looking for, what Andrew was suggesting in his earlier posts is to check the settings in the program that is generating the checks to see if perhaps someone has changed what is getting sent to the GL Reference and/or Description fields. In each 'sub-ledger' module's Company Profile, there is usually an option to 'Send to G/L' for the reference and description fields.
In Adagio Payables for example, this option is found in the Company Profile|Integration screen. In 'Send to G/L reference field' you can send:
Vendor Name, Document description, Document number (i.e. Check number) and Document reference (this could also contain the check number - it depends on what you enter in your original AP transactions).
For the 'Send to G/L description field', you have the same choices as above.
You can also choose to 'Include batch in G/L description', which would show up on your detailed listing as well.
If you are still having difficulties, please do not hesitate to post another response here.
Regards,