Hi @Airtable_Ops please develop this feature! You pitch yourselves as the optimum space for fully manipulable spaces of masses of data but we can’t have wrapped column titles?
The fact that there is no response from AirTable after years of people asking for this feature is increasingly frustrating and really drives away customers into using other platforms. +1 for Wrappable Column Titles, but also wrappable cells as well. There are cell options for small, medium, tall, extra tall. But it would be exceedingly more useful if the cells would just be the height of the content of the cell. Just keep wrapping the data to fit whatever width the user has specified like Google Sheets and Excel does. Come on, AirTable! I really like using your product, but this feature can not be that difficult to implement. AT LEAST give the community some kind of update. It’s been over three years with nothing. At least tell us if you CAN’T do it. That’s better than nothing.
+1 for the vertical option! I’m trying to replace spreadsheets with a bunch of checkbox columns, but it ends up getting way too wide to see. On the spreadsheet, we just rotate the column header so we can read the whole label but still fit all the columns on the screen at the same time. But in airtable, not only does the column width have to be wide enough for the whole title, the various controls also take up room! Things like this are a real barrier to usability–I’m having trouble getting the exec team comfortable switching away from spreadsheets because they can’t see as much at once.
I spent 4 whole days building a prototype of our inventory management system in airtable, only to have my boss come back saying “if I need to pull the data down from airtable into excel and format it again to look at my report, what’s the point?”
I love airtable, but for the mainstream excel user to adopt it, there are 2 very basic features it NEEDS to have.
Wrappable column tiles
I have columns where the data inside is 1-2 characters, but the columns take up 50-100px on the screen. This means I cannot look at a full report without scrolling, and with scrolling I may lose some context.
Colored columns
Some columns, particularly formulas/rollups are more important than others. With tables having 100s of columns in some cases, it is very useful to color code columns and easily find the data you need.
We are now looking at using Excel in the cloud with Script Lab as an alternative, as reporting is key to my organization. But I much prefer AirTable and want to see it succeed…highly recommend working on this feature - looking at this thread there’s many who have been pushing for it and 4 years with no progress is kind of a scary sign
