How can I get to increase widght of certain columns on my views PERMANENTLY?!
58 views
Skip to first unread message
John Smith
Sep 24, 2015, 11:36:06 AM9/24/15
to MyLifeOrganized
Hello
I have a problem that I cannot get my column widths to stay put when I move from tab to tab. And I have the same problem when I click on View in the left hand column
Sorry this is an old problem, but I can't find the correct discussion thread. And it's bugging the heck out of me!
i.e. Every single time I change view, the first column (which in my case contains the Task name) collapses to being stupidly narrow. I have even tried increasing the column width, clicking on Filter (bottom left) and then Saving the view under a new name. However the problem does not go away.
Any thoughts?
J
Dwight Arthur
Sep 24, 2015, 12:51:00 PM9/24/15
to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com
Hi John, (or is it Wallace?)
In order to answer your question, you need to start by determining where you are trying to take the space from in order to enlarge the caption. Unless you have discovered something new, there are only three choices: (a) you are making the next column smaller (b) you are pushing the later columns down to use some currently vacant space at the end of each line, or (c) you are pushing the rightmost column(s) partly or fully off the page. You are almost certainly trying for option (c) and MLO will resist you - you told MLO to display those columns on the right and it's GOING TO DO SO! If you enlarged some column and forced those columns off the page but you didn't give MLO permission to stop displaying them, then you must have been trying for a temporary zoom-in to view something that was truncated, so as soon as you look away MLO will try to correct the situation and get back in compliance with your directives by shrinking the caption until the mandated fields fit once again.
My opinion is that MLO starts by putting all the columns on the screen at their default width, untimate column at the right margin, penultimate column to its left, antepenultimate to the left of that and so on until only the caption remains. The caption then gets all of the unclaimed space, which may be too much or may be too little. Or by strange coincidence, it could be just right, like Goldilocks.
So my prescription for enlarging the caption is: right click on the column header to get a list of columns with the included columns marked with a tick. Untick a few columns that you didnt really want anyway, and see if the caption doesn't grow.
In order to answer your question, you need to start by determining where you are trying to take the space from in order to enlarge the caption. Unless you have discovered something new, there are only three choices: (a) you are making the next column smaller (b) you are pushing the later columns down to use some currently vacant space at the end of each line, or (c) you are pushing the rightmost column(s) partly or fully off the page. You are almost certainly trying for option (c) and MLO will resist you - you told MLO to display those columns on the right and it's GOING TO DO SO! If you enlarged some column and forced those columns off the page but you didn't give MLO permission to stop displaying them, then you must have been trying for a temporary zoom-in to view something that was truncated, so as soon as you look away MLO will try to correct the situation and get back in compliance with your directives by shrinking the caption until the mandated fields fit once again.
My opinion is that MLO starts by putting all the columns on the screen at their default width, untimate column at the right margin, penultimate column to its left, antepenultimate to the left of that and so on until only the caption remains. The caption then gets all of the unclaimed space, which may be too much or may be too little. Or by strange coincidence, it could be just right, like Goldilocks.
So my prescription for enlarging the caption is: right click on the column header to get a list of columns with the included columns marked with a tick. Untick a few columns that you didnt really want anyway, and see if the caption doesn't grow.
-Dwight
MLO Betazoid on Windows, Cloud and Android SGN2
ps thanks for the chance to use the word "antepenultimate" - it's been years.
MLO Betazoid on Windows, Cloud and Android SGN2
ps thanks for the chance to use the word "antepenultimate" - it's been years.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/f9abdaa6-9a9f-46aa-85bc-e17c689cf0eb%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
John Smith
Sep 24, 2015, 2:37:35 PM9/24/15
to MyLifeOrganized
Hi Dwight
Yes, John is the name I go by on forums at least :)
Interesting. I have just spotted another option. On one of my tabs when I right click on the column headers row there the option called "Auto resizing" was ticked. I have now un-ticked it and hey-presto not only it but on all my other tabs the column are now staying where I put them.
More later. Watch this space.
J
Yes, John is the name I go by on forums at least :)
Interesting. I have just spotted another option. On one of my tabs when I right click on the column headers row there the option called "Auto resizing" was ticked. I have now un-ticked it and hey-presto not only it but on all my other tabs the column are now staying where I put them.
More later. Watch this space.
J
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages