Seems that almost all of my fields in almost all of my tables have more text in the column titles then they do in the records.
Wrappable Column Titles
I’ve only been using airtable for a few hours and already found 2 thinks I think are essential that can’t be done… this and embedding a hyperlink… I may not go further with the product…
The lack of wrapping text in the Grid view is likely to be a big problem for me as I work towards pitching AirTable to my team.
More specifically, when hitting the space bar in order to see a record’s contents (in that floating box), the column titles are still cut short in this context if they are longer than the width of that pop up box. This prevents us from using AirTable in a way that I have seen Trello cards used with task descriptions and check box’s in a list form.
If there is another way to do this, please let me know.
+53 years later how is this not a thing yet?! This seems so essential, simple and straightforward! Definitely need this asap.
It is indeed incredible that after 3 years of regular request, nothing has been done to answer to this…
Hi @Airtable_Ops please develop this feature! You pitch yourselves as the optimum space for fully manipulable spaces of masses of data but we can’t have wrapped column titles?
Please.
The fact that there is no response from AirTable after years of people asking for this feature is increasingly frustrating and really drives away customers into using other platforms. +1 for Wrappable Column Titles, but also wrappable cells as well. There are cell options for small, medium, tall, extra tall. But it would be exceedingly more useful if the cells would just be the height of the content of the cell. Just keep wrapping the data to fit whatever width the user has specified like Google Sheets and Excel does. Come on, AirTable! I really like using your product, but this feature can not be that difficult to implement. AT LEAST give the community some kind of update. It’s been over three years with nothing. At least tell us if you CAN’T do it. That’s better than nothing.
Me Too needing this. Or perhaps a vertical option?
+1 for the vertical option! I’m trying to replace spreadsheets with a bunch of checkbox columns, but it ends up getting way too wide to see. On the spreadsheet, we just rotate the column header so we can read the whole label but still fit all the columns on the screen at the same time. But in airtable, not only does the column width have to be wide enough for the whole title, the various controls also take up room! Things like this are a real barrier to usability–I’m having trouble getting the exec team comfortable switching away from spreadsheets because they can’t see as much at once.
I definitely need this also. I’m tired of manually expanding the title to see what it is in a table full of checkboxes.
I’m yet another new user who likes AT generally, but finds the lack of wrapping column names a major impediment. Please do it.
+1Please, Airtable! I’m trying to help my wife transition from Excel to Airtable and this makes it way more difficult.
I spent 4 whole days building a prototype of our inventory management system in airtable, only to have my boss come back saying “if I need to pull the data down from airtable into excel and format it again to look at my report, what’s the point?”
I love airtable, but for the mainstream excel user to adopt it, there are 2 very basic features it NEEDS to have.
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Wrappable column tiles
I have columns where the data inside is 1-2 characters, but the columns take up 50-100px on the screen. This means I cannot look at a full report without scrolling, and with scrolling I may lose some context. -
Colored columns
Some columns, particularly formulas/rollups are more important than others. With tables having 100s of columns in some cases, it is very useful to color code columns and easily find the data you need.
We are now looking at using Excel in the cloud with Script Lab as an alternative, as reporting is key to my organization. But I much prefer AirTable and want to see it succeed…highly recommend working on this feature - looking at this thread there’s many who have been pushing for it and 4 years with no progress is kind of a scary sign
+5keeping the dream alive. let’s get those headers readable people! can someone setup a formula to calculate how long this issue has been dragging???
Wow, seeing this has been an issue for this long and no update makes me wonder why I’m paying $24 a month for this.
At least give us the option to not have the space-consuming icons at the beginning of every column title. I’d rather be able to read the title than know what type of field it is. Just, wow…
+1 for me us well - release the wrap option for people who works with a longer content :slightly_smiling_face:
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