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Denise_Schumake
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

It would be great if it was possible to FORMAT TEXT (fonts, colors, bold, italics), CELLS (left, right, center alignment, background colors), and BORDERS (bold or dashed lines, colors) within tables. The ability to add extra header lines and/or to FREEZE more cells vertically and horizontally would help, too.

I really like the idea of Airtable, but can’t effectively use it over Excel until it has more functionality.

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Kat_Levine
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

@Katherine_Duh
Is there any update on where rich text formatting is on the roadmap? We have a need specifically for bold/italic/underline, bulleted and numbered lists in long text fields. This is needed for our business to properly maintain citation formats of references.

Rocky_Roark
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Yea it looks like its been on the roadmap for over 4 years now! This definitely a feature I think everyone needs and would really benefit the platform dramatically.

Stephen_Beler_N
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I’d really like the ability to assign a text color to an entire column to break the data up a bit. Black text everywhere all blends together. This post shows exactly what the colored columns might look like.

Kara_Taylor
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Line truncating in the title row and left, center, and align are the things i miss most from google sheets. Really utilized this when the column headers are long but the cell information is short. Hate having a two inch column for the title but only have Y or N in the cells. I would make them shorter but i need to read the whole title!

Katrina_Lovrick
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

bump! I’d really like this please

Kevin_Day
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

bump! me too

I’m sad to see it’s been “on the roadmap” for three years, and yet hasn’t been implemented…

Clearly Airtable has lost customers for lacking this “must have” feature, as expressed above

Justin_Barrett
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Not sure if you’ve seen elsewhere in the forum, but rich text formatting is currently in beta.

Greg_B
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

More use cases feedback:

-In Excel with put different colors in headers to easilly distinguish sections of products.

-In Excel with put a grey color in the columns that contains formulas to allow users to see in an heartbeat that these cells doesn’t need to be manually filled.

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Kevin_Day
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Great

Thanks for the response!

Happy new year

Kevin

M_Gohar_Shafiqu
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I am making checklists on airtable so I need to add a bold heading in line item and then its factors

e.g

Content Check
Proofread content
Check word count

etc