Set Column Widths

[billm1]

Allow user to set column widths en masse. Ideally for each variable. For instance, I have sales and market share for each of ten years. If I am not good with the auto set width, rather than having to manually modify the width for each year, I should be able to either enter a width for the field OR manually change one and have the other years follow suit. Either would be helpful, rather than visually setting the widths and hoping I have them equal.

[sock-li_chua]

I see a lot of comments in the internet regarding locking the column width in matrix. But I am surprised that the vote count is so low. This is a basic requirement.

I spent days trying to fix this issue but I can't find a solution to it. I have to manually resize the matrix in my report and republish the app on a daily basis. You can imagine how annoying this is.

If I have set the "Auto-size width" option under column header to "off", I don't understand why PBI still auto-size the matrix columns when values in the matrix are updated. If the matrix table is a 5-column matrix, then the width of the 5 columns should be locked if "Auto-size width" option is set to "off". To me, this is standard logic.

PBI team, this request is not new so please consider this request and work on it soonest possible.

[wcarter2]

5 years on, multiple merged requests, still not implemented. Why does PBI cost so much again? Is all that money *really* going into development of the software? Was moving a few slicer settings from a dropdown menu to the visualizations settings really more important than something like this?

[paul_smout]

7 years on from the start of this idea (read NECESSITY). And still totally ignored by MS. The only conclusion that you can draw is that either MS don't actually use Power BI themselves, or that they've never come up with a column heading longer than 10 characters.

Table and matrix visualisations are long overdue a huge overhaul.

[reuben_anderson]

Madness this has never been implemented. I just don't understand. It's been the number one thing I've been wanting for years and years.

1. Neither myself nor my customers want variably width-ed columns on a matrix or table. It creates visual noise. It's bad.
2. .... let alone having things then RE-size when someone drills down, so they have to spend time figuring out what has only changed visually and what has changed numerically.
3. I have already wasted far far too much of my lifetime resizing columns to be evenly spaced. Only for it to all be lost when I change the measure on the viz.

This is so very obvious.