# REQUEST: Auto resize columns option
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-auto-resize-columns-option/54242
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-auto-resize-columns-option/54242 "2021-08-31T14:24:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mr-b](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mr-b)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-auto-resize-columns-option/54242/1 "2021-08-31T14:24:42Z")
Hi
I asked how to do this over 10 years ago (ahem) and thankfully the keyboard shortcut even then made it into help.
> [@Auto-resize columns?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-resize-columns/11584):
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> Hi Is it possible to auto-resize the columns (Filename, Path, Tag, title etc.)? I find that I have to do a lot of horizontal scrolling to check all the tags, and many have lots of blank space that could be trimmed automatically and that would reduce this.
But because these days I'm an occasional mp3tag user, I still forget it!
But having an option to do this automatically would _really_ help lots of dragging column delimiters around, trying to show on-screen which pesky tag is non-compliant!
And then having to do it all over again with another album ...
(Also the function still ignores (and hence) truncates column headers which then requires more column resizing, so it would be nice to have that fixed too)
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-auto-resize-columns-option/54242/2 "2021-09-02T10:42:19Z")
You have my vote
An ability to quickly extend a Column to reveal all of a given tag field [and then also a counter ability to revert to the previous width] would save me a looooooooot of time and clicks
And a complete solution to this issue could be somewhere along these lines:
> [@Request: customize column profiles](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-customize-column-profiles/17941):
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> 99% of the time I do 2-3 kinds of work. And each of them either benefits or requires different set of columns being displayed. And as such, sometimes I have to turn on and turn off the same columns during the same day. So I do the same dull task over and over again. And my list of columns has over 30 positions, from which this 99% of the time I use around 10, from which I use 5-6 [depending on the kinf of work I'm doing] If I could save the currently selected [turned on] columns then I could lo…
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### Author:  [@mr-b](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mr-b)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-auto-resize-columns-option/54242/3 "2021-09-02T14:05:10Z")
Tx for the vote. My use case would be solved with just an option to view all the tag (and column header) data by default, and might be easier to implement than a full blown tag view profile plus switcher feature which IIUC is what your use case needs?
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-auto-resize-columns-option/54242/4 "2021-09-17T12:37:25Z")
Yes, your proposition is a lot simplier one