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Wrappable Column Titles

  • September 18, 2016
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  • May 6, 2021

I can’t believe it still hasn’t been added, justification would be good too.


  • New Participant
  • May 20, 2021

I’m currently trying to get buy-in from a 1000+ person company to use Airtable instead of Excel, and I’m dismayed to find (after some testing and searching) that Airtable can’t wrap, rotate, or change the font size of column label text! This is, as dozens of people before me have noted for the past four-plus years, a basic feature that is sorely lacking.

Wonder if Ragic lets me do what I want? I’ll be checking…


Tristan-ARG
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  • May 21, 2021

+1 to this feature. Is quite useful, it will improve the information density, which I think is crucial.


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  • June 10, 2021

I’m currently trying to get buy-in from a 1000+ person company to use Airtable instead of Excel, and I’m dismayed to find (after some testing and searching) that Airtable can’t wrap, rotate, or change the font size of column label text! This is, as dozens of people before me have noted for the past four-plus years, a basic feature that is sorely lacking.

Wonder if Ragic lets me do what I want? I’ll be checking…


And? Can Ragic do it?

I wanted to start out with Airtable but I’m also surprised and frustrated by this kind of little “bad design” annoyances…
Never heard of Ragic, but maybe I will check it out if it’s any better at all. :slightly_smiling_face:


  • New Participant
  • June 10, 2021

Yes. Ragic can wrap column titles. Overall, Ragic isn’t as pretty as Airtable, but there are niceties like this that are better.


  • New Participant
  • September 10, 2021

:disappointed_relieved: :disappointed_relieved: :disappointed_relieved: Airtable team: why so long to make this small change? Spanish is a language that usually needs looooong words for everything. We try to make all fit in 1 screen but we can’t see the title of the row. Should we use acronyms in all titles? :grinning_face_with_sweat:


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Not sure Airtable team is hearing. When we have an integer with 2 digits, it’s frustating to definie a wide width


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  • July 22, 2022

Airtable team is NOT hearing, lol. :d

I’m generally enthousiastic about Airtable and how well made it is… But this kind of thing just blows my mind.
If you’re used to working with Excel, it’s just impossible to imagine that you can’t wrap a bloody column header in software that is out of beta testing phase.


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Yes please- another vote for columns name wrap


Been using Airtable for 3 years, and team is growing. Each time we get new recruit I have to explain about this annoying thing that you really have to pay attention to field names as fields with similar names are impossible to recognize or see on the same screen.
My intern joked yesterday that it is because Airtable wants us to buy bigger screens!!!
This is a seriously pathetic design flaw.


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  • July 28, 2023

Throwing another vote in here for wrappable column headers!


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  • September 22, 2023

ah, no wonder I can't make my column header cells taller or wrap the text. This would be a deal breaker if some of the other features weren't so freakin' awesome. Yet, this is a basic, must have feature, no?! 


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  • June 11, 2024

Is this still not possible??