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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 canโ€™t effectively use it over Excel until it has more functionality.

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cheng_zheng
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I hope there are basic โ€œleft-alignโ€ โ€œright-alignโ€ โ€œcenter-alignโ€ for โ€œSingle line textโ€

Tracylee_Frankl
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I ditto everything here 1000 times. Airtable is an awesome spreadsheet but itโ€™s missing so much key spreadsheet functionality, centre/right/left align, coloured text, coloured cellsโ€ฆthese are small things but they make a huge visual differenceโ€ฆI canโ€™t stress how much a difference these would make.

Tracylee_Frankl
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I canโ€™t believe the ability for basic formatting has been requested for 5 yearsโ€ฆby a huge number of clients and still not even a date has been discussed.

Airtable, please, pleaseโ€ฆgive us the ability to display our info, the way we want to see our info. (left/right/middle aligned, coloured cells, borders, bold, italics are SUPER important to making airtable a visual masterpeice).

Steve_Penson
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I agree. This functionality would be useful.

Emily_Kennard
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

+1 Please add this function!

Jason_Roach
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

โ€œIs this real life?!โ€ I assumed Airtable would have this featureโ€ฆsurprised to see itโ€™s still being requested?!

Also, not sure if anyone has called this out yet, but being able to display tags within a cell would be helpful. For example: Ability to display character count of contents within each cell, by column. Defining Title Tag; ALT text; Meta Description come to mind where this would be useful.

Geza_Molnar
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Hi Katherine,

Could you find some specifics in this thread? :winking_face:

When are we going to see them in AirTable?

Raquel_Robles
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Iโ€™ve been using Airtable less than a month really love it; however, I too am shocked that the ability to change the font in tables doesnโ€™t exist. Is there any workaround at all? The text size is an issue. Anytime in the near future?

Tim_Heymans
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Airtable, weโ€™re waitingโ€ฆ

Giorgio_Bazziga
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Airtable, Any progress on this?
Itโ€™s been 5 years?

Please, add colors.