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New Editing Experience - Working with Tables / Column Width

Stacey J

Enjoying the new experience, but struggling with tables. It is probably right in front of my face, but I can't find a place to change the column width. (I've checked macros, table settings and column drop-down.) It defaults the column width to fill the layout. I just need a little table for a few numbers. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

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Brant Schroeder

Stacey,

To set the width manually you will need to change the table from responsive to fixed width. You may have to highlight the whole table to make the change.

Stacey J

Thanks Brent. I'm familiar with that in the old editing experience. Liked the way it worked. But when I start a blank page using the new editing experience, I no longer see those options. Formatting tools are now within the cell.

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Any help is appreciated!

Brant Schroeder

In the new table formatting you can change the size of the overall table on this right hand side when a cell is selected. You can then change the width of a cell by dragging the edge of the column. These are the new options for changing the table size and column widths.

unknown

Hi,

Using Chrome, Firefox or Edge, I have the same issue: impossible to click on thoses popup buttons.

It just flickers all the time and is unusable

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-questions/Am-I-the-only-one-having-flickering-issues-in-both-Chrome/qaq-p/1158462#M704

Greg Gross

I opened a ticket on this to request fixed width tables. Atlassian closed it. I don't think they care about making the change. It's a shame. I don't think we will continue to use it much longer.

Alexander Jóhönnuson

I´m using this at a corporation level and this just sucks. Has to be fixed else we´ll opt out.

Rupert Broad

Feature request https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67748

unknown

Hei, Atlassian!

What are we paying your for? Please, FIX THAT ASAP.

JP_pf79fx

Another example of something that worked perfectly well in the old editor and is useless in the new editor. In so many places the new editor removed functionality.

be_hsfnxr

Please give us the option to choose table layout "fixed".

Mobin Daraie

Found an ugly solution using an old web design technique.

Add a Layouts box and place the table within the table

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Andrew Logvinov

Thanks, been struggling with this for an hour until I found your suggestion.

Bruce Zhang_c93h9o

I have to say this is terrible.

Pato Moschcovich

I am facing the same problem (the icon at the top right part of the table to change the width of the table is missing) but only on certain pages.

My theory is that this bug occurs when a page is converted from the old editor to the new one. Please don't do it. If you are lucky to have a page created with the old editor, keep it that way.

Patrick Leal_or35jf

Call me a cynic (and I'm sure Atlassian already have their marketing talking points ready to refute any claims otherwise), but it seems that they slowly remove crucial functionality from Confluence, only to have that once-default functionality magically appear as a paid feature in Marketplace.

"For only 5 cents per user per month, you can change text from Plain to Bold!" is not too far away.

Milton Yates_3910s2

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!

Antoon van Breda

I had a page in the old editor, but needed to change the width of a table. This did not work anymore, so I opted to convert to the new editor. Now all my tables are messed up and full width without an option to make them less wide

This is very disappointing. It trains users to suspect all future updates and just stick with the old version.

Steve Tarlton

This was exactly what I needed as well! Thanks for the suggestion @Mobin Daraie

greeneyed_7ss4vl

2026 and still having issues. Way to go!

Robert Lauriston

Atlassian finally forced the "upgade." How do I make a table wider than the default? I see no button whether it's fixed-width or not.

Did anyone at Atlassian get fired for this mess?

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