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Seems strange that a simple task of changing the column width of reports is not available?

It would be great to be able to adjust the columns within the invoices. Especially the description column.

Nothing in Xero resizes, and it's very annoying. Been using it for 10 years now and nothing has changed in this regard.
On a 4K screen it looks like a joke.

I would love to see this, as I send timesheet reports to customers and often the Hours column is really wide and the Description is too narrow and it just looks odd! Currently, I export to excel and manually adjust things, then export to PDF from there.

I have to stack other reporting tools on top of Xero because the reporting is so hard to look at in Xero. Text wrapping (because of fixed column width) causes rows to be randomly different sizes. Not being able to present clean financials undermines all the heavy lifting when the final product is not beautiful financials.

We're not able to adjust the column width of the VAT201 and therefore cannot see the account codes and references. There is also no invoice number on the VAT201. We now have to export the reports to excel to see the info to be able to review clients' VAT returns.

Please can you add the function to be able to adjust the column width and also the invoice number.

Trying to customise reports for meeting and small report taking up 3 pages - not sure how to adjust column with of first column account description taking up 2 or 3 lines so makes report much longer. Is this not able to be widened?

The ability to resize columns where the figures are not long but the heading is would be great, this will make the report far easier to read. Ideally its a drag to resize with the column headings auto wrapping. An example of this is the Budget Variance report where the "Overall Budget" colunm could be made narrower as well as the Account name field.

@Kelly Munro, Can you update us please on timeline for column widths and margins. I have just printed out the General Ledger exception report for the first month of the year and it's 13 pages long but only needs to be about 4-5 if we could adjust. This is not good for the planet and looks very unprofessional if we print to pdf. Even if we cant' adjust from the user end, there are large areas of white space that are not being used. Happy to send an example to a Xero email for you to look at.
thanks Wendy

Also being able to format column headers (e.g. wrap text) similar to formatting in Excel would save a load of work having to download to excel and reformating there before distributing (as per Kimn's comment below).

The ability to adjust column widths within custom reports would be a very helpful feature. We have custom reports that look fine on the screen & when sent to PDF format, have columns that are way too wide, which makes the report very impractical to read & unprofessional to look at. The only way around this at the moment is to export to excel & re-format that way, however this is more manual manipulation & the reports don't look as good when formatted this way.

It is really bad when entry fields are too small to see the full amount
This is happening all over XERO and a further problem is the different functionality displayed by entry fields of the same type

We moved to Xero to get away from reporting using spreadsheets so I was really disappointed to find I cannot run a balance sheet report with a variance column as it wont fit and the only solution is to export to Excel.

It's hard to export to Excel and then format to the exact layout that was on Xero PDF (which was relatively well set out) and takes more time to prepare a report. Any report this would be helpful in.

Also agree with Fiona Davidson, not just in reports but in the page views.

agreed, this is something that should be standard functionality

Kelly,
Here is a frustrating example today which may help yor team.
I had to export to excel and then add a column because Xero thought I did not have enough space, and therefore refused to let me add a column in layout.

Could you please respond to this group wiht an updated ETA for the column width fix.
Regards
Wendy

ALL OF THEM!
Not just reports either, but the page views. You know the columns you guys messed with in your "updates"

Column Widths in Reports and On-screen displays

It would be extremely useful to be able to change the column widths of both on-screen displays and reports.

Reports can be exported to excel to customise but this is extremely time consuming and exporting to pdf makes for longer than necessary reports (more pages). My contact name and item code fields are generally much longer than than the column width you seem to think appropriate and can take up 3 or 4 lines when in pdf format or on screen (all screens: invoices, bills, po's contacts etc etc).

All reports

The column width should be auto adjust according to the longest in the column. Option is to wrap in the cell