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Old 10-01-2022, 07:55 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
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The second one isn't clear. What is supposed to happen? Are the columns reduced in proportion? To a fixed size equal to the window size / number of columns? With a minimum size, and if so, what size? What happens if the sum of the minimum sizes doesn't fit in the window? Is this actually a useful function?
This deserves a response.

The second option is a consequence of the first. if one resized all columns to fit their content, and there were a couple of very long cells - e.g. Jeffery Sachs' recent report titled "The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic" (70+ chars) and it's list of 41 contributors (900+ chars), the right most columns would be in next door's front parlour, so to speak

Aside: I actually thought this functionality already existed in VM, but when I looked it wasn't there - then I spotted the options in the header context menu - what does "Shrink column if it is too wide to fit" actually do?

Idea: - provide a tool that that makes the current cell's column header context menu available in a toolbar or menu, then I could get at it from the book list context menu.

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