In the old Confluence I could create a table that was wider than the page width. I would mark it as a fixed-width table and keep dragging columns wider until the table was off the page and required horizontal scrolling. In the new editing experience I don't see a way to do so. Is it possible? I have a lot of information and want a really bug table. Thank you!
If you need to create big tables in Confluence, we can suggest looking into 3rd party apps with spreadsheets.
For example, our company develops the Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence app that includes the Table Spreadsheet macro.
The macro provides all the basic Excel-like features (cell formulas, filtration, conditional formatting, etc.).
Besides it looks rather neat and easy-to-read within a Confluence page. And you may always go full screen while working with your data if required.
Luckily, it looks like my organization has this macro. Will check it out.
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I've found a little workaround for this.
If you put the table in a Table Toolbox macro, the size of the table will be allowed to go off the edge of the page.
From a bit of playing around, the maximum width of the table columns can be changed by adding a long word or set of symbols in one of the cells of the column you want.
Example:
This is 2 identical tables, but the top one is in a Table Toolbox. Here's the editor view:
And this is what it looks like in the preview:
You can see the top table in the preview has a scroll bar, and the first column is as wide as the set of underscores "_______________" that have been put in the column header.
If you don't want your column headers to be messed up by this, I believe it also works by putting them in a regular row of the table.
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In Cloud tables columns can be sized by dragging it's with, if a table is wider then the page scrollbars will be made visible by default.
Or they are autoscaled based on screensize.
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I can't drag it wider than the screen. My mouse can't drag it off the screen.
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I have the same issue. It won't let me drag it wider than the width of the page
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@Russell R Rutledge Welcome to the Atlassian Community!
For information on how to resize tables in Cloud, see this article and the related comments: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Resize-Confluence-tables-to-any-width/ba-p/2483925
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I'm not seeing how to make the table larger than the screen width :(
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@Russell R Rutledge If you look through the comments and responses from the author, you will see that you are not the first one to mention this. I think they set this up for Confluence to scale the table based on the size of the reader's page. There is a comment on the second page of comments that mentions a few related Jira tickets they have created that you might want to review and vote for/follow.
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