Issue 119674

Summary: Configurable default column width
Product: Calc Reporter: Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 CC: binbjguo, smjg
Version: OOo 3.3   
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Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Dwayne Henderson 2012-06-01 10:50:10 UTC 
Why is the default cell width in OOo 2,27cm?

What about changing it to 2,50cm, a nice round number which will make it easier to grid ones spreadsheets (http://www.subtraction.com/pics/0703/grids_are_good.pdf), i.e. imposing order by only having cells that are 2,50cm, 5cm, 7,50cm, 10cm and so on.

Thank you!
Comment 1 Dwayne Henderson 2012-06-02 09:01:04 UTC 
* column width
Comment 2 Dwayne Henderson 2012-06-03 16:04:24 UTC 
2012/6/3 Niall Martin <niall@rndmartin.cix.co.uk>

Actually why should the default column width be hard coded this way? I would have thought we need two user configurable setting in Tools/options/calc: 1. the measurement system -- international yard or SI;  2. the column width.
Comment 3 binguo 2012-06-12 05:19:29 UTC 
Verified on AOO3.4.O Rev. 1327774,
and I change the status from Unconfirmed to confirmed.
Comment 4 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 07:20:30 UTC 
adjusting issue types and severity according suggestion from Bin Guo
Comment 5 Stewart Gordon 2017-05-16 10:47:49 UTC 
I agree, it makes no sense for it to be hard-coded.  I was just searching to try and find out how to change the default column width, and found nothing but workarounds.

Are you asking for this as a document-level or system-level setting?  I hope it will be possible to change it at both levels.  (System level would probably be a matter of changing it in the default template.)