Wrap around text in header field?

Dear Santa, let’s make the developers hear us and add word wrap to headers, cells and lookup data selection!

Another vote for this one :point_up:

+1 Another vote for this one. Come on airtable, simple change.

Desperately need this too. I have currency fields with long headers. I have to download into Excel to wrap the headers just to get a handle on my data.

Given how airtable ignores these massive threads of logical requests I’m not sure this will help but, yes this is needed, airtable is used often as a replacement to sheets or excel, both of which let your wrap text, this is very important for the headers so you can get more info on the screen

Yes please do this. AT is not simple to navigate the columns and this is the solution!

It’s 2021 and we still need wrap text everywhere!

+1 for field header wrapping

+1 to headers enabling Text Wrapping

+100 please make grid view useful :pray:

+1 This is one of the things that makes Airtable hard to pitch to teams. Not being able to wrap headers just makes the whole UI way more visually unattractive than it needs to be.

yes please make this happen.

Everyone needs to email support@airtable.com about this. They don’t read our posts here, and they need to hear from us regarding this important issue.

+1 - if not for content, needed for Headers at minimum

Why is “Type indicator” even necessary except during the table design stage? There should be a control to toggle it off. It takes up way too much valuable (and limited) column header space.

I think it’s very useful:

• tells you if the data comes from from other table
• tells you the format (number vs text, long text vs rich text…)
• tells you if the value is manually entered or if it’s calculated or pulled (text vs formula vs lookup).

Maybe an option in the field setup to hide it would be a great solution (or at table/base/user level).

And of course to be able to wrap columns would be the best solution.

Please please please make this a feature. I have data that’s basically a Yes/No or a single digit and the column does not need to be the whole length of the multi-word header. I can do this in literally every other program, how has Airtable not implemented this yet!?

Is there an answer to this yet? If not, +1.

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how is this still not an option!!! sheesh c’mon man!

July 2022 and still not an option?

Another vote to PLEASE add this. It is such a simple feature that would provide a lot of usability to the app.

Come on Airtable, Wrap the Header TEXT PLEASE!!! It’s only been on the “To Do List” for 6 years!
provide an option to remove the header type when creating / formatting the column. When hovering the type and description is then displayed.

Is Airtable incompetent or lazy? Surely Microsoft does not have a patent on text wrapping in headers, even if the creative folks at Airtable need to call it something else for copyright reasons. How about Super-duper visible headers that don’t take up miles of column width? No, even Airtable can do better than that, I think.

Six years?? REALLY? This makes me worry that the company might dry up and blow away. Guess its time for my lab to switch to a free open-source db and workflow.

Lol, why do you assume it’s one or the other? These are not mutually exclusive. :joy: