https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171108
--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > Mind to add some STR in what situation you expect a new option? I can describe a situation, but STR are not relevant, since it's not a bug that happens after some specific steps. Anyway, the situation is as follows: * You have a table with more than a few columns; say, your personal contacts * Some of the columns have relatively narrow content: Prefix or some YES/NO column; some are longer, e.g. name, family name, phone number; some are longer still, like address, or email; and some longer still, like comment. * You've set the columns to fit the width of their content, and so some columns are waaay to wide, and some are not that wide, but you would still want to make them narrower to see more columns at the same time. Some columns you might want to make narrower because they're usually empty, and if they aren't for some row you'll just focus that cell and read the full content. Your problem is that you only see a small number of columns on your screen, and you want to see more. So, what do you do? * You can set all columns to a fixed short width, but then some columns won't show important information, and you'll need to re-adjust them. * You can set all columns to a wider fixed width, which would enough for all the important columns, and narrow the very wide one, but but - the originally-narrower columns would get wider, and you'll lose visibility of some columns just for that reason. * You could manually shorten the very-wide columns, one-by-one. That would work but would be tedious. If you could cap the column width, that would give you what you need. That may sound long but isn't really complicated. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
