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Change column settings in a table

Change column settings in a table

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Change column settings in a table

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- [Instructor] Table columns can display their contents in different ways. You can change the heading, wrap the heading text to fit the column width, align the text and more. Well, let's start by switching to a different view in this project. On the view tab, click the bottom half of the Gantt chart button and then, in the custom section, I'm going to select OM Gantt. If I click the tables button on the view tab over in the data section, you can see that the OM summary table is selected because it's got a check mark next to its name. Well, let's make some changes in how things appear in this table. I'm going to right click the start column heading. On the shortcut menu, choose field settings. That displays the field settings dialogue box and there are all sorts of things that you can do. Well first of all, when you look in this dialogue box, the field name box shows you the field that's actually displayed, in this case, start. But there's also a title box. So you could actually have…

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