"List View" columns width

[Guest]

Last year I downloaded some kind of freeware/shareware program that would
customize your folder settings. One option was to adjust the width of the
columns when you have a folder set to "List View".

At the time, I made the columns extremely wide to read all of the file names
without Windows shortening them up. Now, these columns are much too wide and
I would like to reduce the width back to normal. How can I do this?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Hit ctrl+ the plus (+) sign in the number pad to reset them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Thank you for helping me but unfortunately, your suggestion didn't work. As
best as I could tell, nothing happened.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Make sure that you a) click in the right pane first and b) are using the
plus (+) sign on the numberpad, not the one on the alpha portion of the
keyboard (in a laptop, use the Fn key and appropriate corresponding key,
often the colon).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Double click the header divider to open a column to the width needed to view
the longest entry. You have to drag it back to get it to be narrow again.

Click and Drag a header divider to change the width of a column.

How to Change Column Settings in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310297

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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