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Originally Posted by tarisea

This is driving me crazy. I know its here. I think

If you click on a book and select edit metadata individually it opens with two tabs. One is "Basic Metadata" The other is "Custom Metadata". Is there a way to tell Calibre that you do not want a specific custom column to appear on the Custom Metadata tab?

You can define the presentation order of custom columns in metadata edit via the Order of custom column(s) in edit metadata Tweak. But you can't exclude columns.

Originally Posted by tarisea

I have a couple of custom columns that are taking up so much realestate there that I have to scroll on the first tab to hit "download metadata". It's annoying.

Don't understand - you wrote this

If you click on a book and select edit metadata individually it opens with two tabs. One is "Basic Metadata" The other is "Custom Metadata.

Which would seem to imply you have Preferences->Behaviour->Edit metadata (single) layout set to Default, in which case the Download button is on the "Basic Metadata" tab only - so I can't imagine how custom columns can hide the Download button. With the Default layout you would need a small display area or use large fonts to hide the button.

However, I can imagine that the button might 'disappear' with the All-on-1 Tab or Compact layouts

Unfortunately the Download button doesn't have a unique accelerator key, it shares 'alt/d' with three other columns IDs, Date and Published. If it had a unique accelerator you could use it and then press Enter. I have a vague memory that at time it was 'alt/w', but I may be misremembering.

BR