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 On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 5:51:00 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > 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. > -Dwight > MLO Betazoid on Windows, Cloud and Android SGN2 > > ps thanks for the chance to use the word "antepenultimate" - it's been > years. > > On 9/24/2015 11:36 AM, John Smith wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- > 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/f9abdaa6-9a9f-46aa-85bc-e17c689cf0eb%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/d08d33f3-5e72-46c7-9e2c-fcad11e1f216%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
