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Column width resize in modern list
Its quite absurd that Microsoft continues to push out products that have many commonly used features and tools missing. Or they make tasks so time consuming to perform. Who really wants to spend countless hours learning and writing scripts? Its like we are stepping back in time, gone are the days of using a GUI to do simple tasks. If it wasn't for CRM and ERP systems that only runs on Windows I would propose the company I work for to swift over to Linux or Mac.
The only way I found to force a column to be wider in a sharepoint list is to add a load of characters to the header e.g. -------- Description -------- this forces the minimum width.
This does screw up other style views (e.g. Boxed or Preview), so maybe best to create a 2nd calculated column called widedescription and display the wide one only when necessary.
While the latest suggestion offered will make a column larger there still appears to be no way to make the first column smaller and making columns larger does not make columns fit on a single screen. So, this will not work for our needs. Thanks for sharing the solution though. Some people might just be looking for a way to make columns larger.
This is really smart and might help in a lot of cases. Thanks for sharing
- I have whilst it is an ingenious workaround, it is just that - a workaround.
Come on Microsoft! Surely having the ability to set column widths isn't beyond you. And no, requiring coding or hacks to achieve this is not acceptable.
Tracy,
So far I have not seen any solution that will resize the columns to fit in one screen or even to just reduce the size of the first column. If anyone has figured this out, please jump in and explain the solution. Our current "solution" is to use the Classic list mode. We miss out on new features, but at least our users are not complaining about how bad the list is displayed.
