How to size a column in an automation email

@Greg_Maier were you able to figure this out? I am currently having the same issue

Same on the Q above. Can anyone from AT help? 

Also having the same issue! Following this thread in case of any updates. 

Please help, my emails look terrible

Same thing here, tables attached to emails are not viewer nor printer friendly.

Thanks team for an update/advice

Hi Everyone,

I never found a fix, but what I did is shift the column with the most text to the end, that helped a little.
Problem will be if you have multiple columns with a lot of text.

Not sure if there's another answer but I found using the "Truncate" function helps to format for email and will adjust columns accordingly.

Thank you, seems to work!

I have this issue too but have not found a solution. I wish Airtable added this feature to their automations allowing more user control over how the inserted grid of records is displayed (width of columns, order of columns/fields, etc). The defaults are ok but it would make a big difference to make the Airtable automated emails more visually attractive and user friendly.

Hi Anncrutt,

In the grid options within the email, have you tried to truncate?  

This solution doesn't help my situation. I want all text to be visible (so truncating is not a good solution) but the default column sizing does appear to correspond with the quantity of text to display. Here is a screenshot of what my table looks like to illustrate. Ideally more space should be allocated to the "Logged Dates" column.

Hi Anncrutt,

Use an array formula for the dates and truncate to optimize +/- width. Below is a email/automation example

Thanks for trying to be helpful, but this suggestion doesn't work well for my situation. I'm interested in optimizing the email display for a better user experience and improved readability. This requires a level of customization in displaying grids features that Airtable automated email do not currently support. The workaround of creating duplicate columns with different field types can help for some cases but comes with the tradeoff of cluttering up your raw data tables by adding these extra fields just for display purposes (very similar to the workaround of displaying date strings cleanly to removing the "UTC" by converting date fields to strings). I would like to see Airtable develop a more effective solution to overcome these limitations.

I decided to remove the start date column to help. Here is a comparison of displaying multiple dates as the suggested array/formula fields vs. my original lookup field. I find my original lookup field more readable and will stick with that.

You are welcome. I thought you were wanting the field wider. You can achieve your goal by changing the "Log Date" field to "Long Text" and "Enable rich text formatting". If working directly within the table, you will have two options when entering data,  "Pop Out" or it will show in a column format.  See below... 

Below is an example of what the email could look like. Of course you would code the text within the email according to your needs.