Wrap Column Names | Voters

Wrap Column Names

Brad Hawkins

Hi. It would be great if you could wrap column names. So names that might be longer than the data in the column. Eg: A column named "Project Manager" (allocated to field) is all on one line, but the actual Project Manager's Avatar is only small/two letters.
Reducing the column width (to save on horizontal screen space) cuts off the column description. If it could be "wrapped" to be "Project" (1st line) and "Manager" (2nd line) then that would be great.
Thanks.

November 26, 2022

Karina Schafer

It is disappointing to see this request has been in the queue since 2022.  
I just posted a comment on another link asking for this a year ago. https://community.smartsuite.com/web-app-9owdr184
This is exactly the problem I am dealing with currently. I have a bunch of YES/NO Fields and I can't read any of the table columns to make sense of which each field is without clicking on the Help Text option - which is not convenient for 2 reasons: 1) You have to take the additional time to setup the Help Text Column & 2) You have to click on the "info" button to make that column name appear. 
If at least the Help Text was simple triggered by hovering over the "info" button, that would make it easier to read column headings. 
Without this ability, using tables is visually dysfunctional because of the extra time and effort that goes into reading the column headings because of the lack of column heading customization. 
Excel type spreadsheets make this easier by the wrapping option, or the ability to change text font size. 
This is a needed feature.

Carla Williams

Yes, and yes! I see several feature requests for this.  Bumping before submitting a new feature request.  Thanks!
https://feedback.smartsuite.com/feature-requests/p/expanding-the-top-row-of-information
https://feedback.smartsuite.com/feature-requests/p/heading-height-row

Colleen Deal

Just bumping this one. Seems like it would be pretty easy to implement and would help a great deal with readability!

Gary Ford

I think wrapping Column Names is important, another thought is that as a developer i need to see more information in the column name then the user needs to see. I have worked with systems in the past (sorry I do not remember whose) that let me have a choice to show the full column name or an abbreviated column name. I would really be in favor of this approach in addition to having the column names wrap. Each view could have a toggle switch between full or abbreviated.... or even better - each view could support a custom column name.... I see a can of worms here, but I can also see making it more clear to who is using a specific view. Forms let us do this! I can see how having an abbreviated set of names could really help on mobile devices!!

Nate Montgomery @ SmartSuite

Merged in a post:

Word Wrap Column Titles

Gary Ford

Word wrap in column titles would be very nice

July 7, 2024

Ted Pearlman

Thought I'd check in and poke this again.

Andy Craig

Agreed, or at least add an option to hover over the title to see the full text

Tim Klug

Providing just two lines for wrapping would be better than no wrap. We consistently find use cases for longer column names. Requesting this for planned.

Nina Taylor

This would be BEYOND helpful 🙏🙏🙏

Ted Pearlman

Wholeheartedly agree. This is something that AirTable users have desired for YEARS. Why not go ahead and embarass them by implementing it here on SmartSuite!

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