How to wrap text in tables? Is there a way to control the column width?

[Akarshi Taneja]

How to wrap text in tables on the confluence page? Is there a way to control the column width? When a table has 20+ rows and 15+ columns, the content looks out of place. Which is the option for column alignment?

[Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}]

Hi @Akarshi Taneja ,

If your company uses our app that is Table Filter and Charts for Confluence, you may use the Table Transformer macro to set the required column width and/or text alignment.

[Stiltsoft support]

And you may also try our Table Spreadsheet macro that provides text wrapping feature as well (and many more Excel-like functions as cell formulas, conditional formatting, pivot tables, filtration, etc.).

[Juliette Lallement _Elements Apps_]

Hi @Akarshi Taneja 

Confluence Cloud comes with its set of shortcomings when it comes to tables...

I can suggest you the app Elements Spreadsheet, available in the on-premise and Cloud hostings. You will be able to control column width as you please, hide columns and rows, set the first row as header, etc. 

Hope it helps!

[Gregory Muir]

I'll give that a look. 

[Nancy_Anderson-Semple]

Are there plans to enhance the table functionality in Confluence Cloud to include text wrapping within a table as is done in the on-prem version? This is standard functionality. It is baffling (and extremely frustrating) to see this lack in functionality when you migrate content from the on-prem product to the Cloud version. Cannot understand why the Cloud version does not have it in place.

[Bill Bailey]

Text automatically wraps with in table cells when the table width reaches the page width. In the server table editor, you can manually set the column widths. These are built-in functions.

[Gregory Muir]

Yet another feature left behind on the damn server. ARGH

[Alex Dolara]

Hi Akarshi,

Among the options, they propose to you, if you want to try it, there is Advanced Tables app. This app gives you the possibility to do what you are asking for. I hope this could have helped you.