MrT 1 Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I often use tables for smaller notes where I don't want to have an excel sheet embedded in the note, but I can't seem to figure out how to change the size of a table if i turns out I need it bigger (width), after having created it? Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 There isn't currently a UI for changing the size of tables, but this is definitely on our list of future improvements.Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,039 Posted November 23, 2010 Level 5* Share Posted November 23, 2010 Agree with the need to change table width percentage after table creation. Sometimes you just don't need a two column table to span the screen. Easy enough to add rows thank you. Link to comment
Level 5* EdH 1,668 Posted June 13, 2011 Level 5* Share Posted June 13, 2011 Is this enhancement still on the "to do" list? I cannot figure out how to adjust the width with version 4.3.1.4479 for Windows, so assuming it hasn't made the cut yet. Link to comment
myth0s 0 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Hi, Is this feature still on the todo list? Link to comment
MadelineSW 0 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I'm having a similar issue -- I made a two-column table to compare/contrast two lists, but the left column is significantly wider than the right. It automatically resized itself this way, and I can't alter it. Both columns have just about the same amount of text, so I'm really not sure why it decided to size itself this way... Link to comment
Billy White 0 Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 A work around I've found, at least for changing the width of the table is to export the table as HTML, then go into the HTML file and change the table width to the desired percentage, like: <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> Then open up the HTML file in a browser, select all, copy, and paste back into Evernote. However, it'd be much nicer if you could right click and go into Table Properties to adjust widths like other WYSIWYG's. Link to comment
randyintegra 0 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 3 and a half years? Is this still on the list? Link to comment
deb 0 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 The ability to change the height and width of a table now appears to be functional in the web browser (I use Firefox) . Most of the time I use EverNote on a Mac. The table width cannot be manipulated in the Mac application. However, if I login in to EverNote with my browser, when you click in the table, at the corners will appear grabbers. Grab a corner and resize your table. Done! Link to comment
Palomita 0 Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Deb, that tip really helped me. Really should be simpler than this - come on Evernote - throw us a bone! Link to comment
Omni-impotent 3 Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I totally agree! Since there's no quick feature for resizing images, I rely on tables a lot. Also it allows me to put in two images side by side (why waste space?). Please get this implemented. Link to comment
Zefvdz 2 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Hello, Is there eventually any target implementation date, ~4 years after the request? Just asking as this is the sole roadblock preventing me from using Evernote and making me stay on AllMyNotes Organizer. Capturing notes under tables (action follow-up, project status, pros/cons recap, weekly log...) is indeed one of the best way for efficient real-time note-taking and/or re-processing after meetings or events. That's why I just cannot consider using a note-taking tool not having a smooth & flexible table management... And I'm pretty sure I mustn't be the only one on earth Link to comment
AlexW 1 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 +1...This drives me insane - please sort it out guys!!! Link to comment
Gosa 1 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 +1 for me too. It's also driving me nuts. Thanks. I would appreciate it! Cheers Link to comment
MaxJP 0 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Still...... I would have been using Evernote for two years now if i could make the tables fixed width on the mac application. I come back every semester hoping it will be added but it never is so i cant really organize my notes right. Link to comment
kermit_the_frog 1 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 +1 for me too. It doesn't have to be pretty, even editing a note in HTML or whatever internal markup you use would be sufficient. Link to comment
muxevola 1 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 +1 for me too Thanks Link to comment
vboudry 2 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Images & Table resizeing, please!(and not only in the online version!) Link to comment
Fomalhaut 0 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 +1 Really need this function. thanks Link to comment
Patrick Davenport 2 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 While I agree that this feature should be in Evernote, there is a way around this. I use Chrome, but the trick should work in Firefox and probably IE since they too have "developer" tools. My steps are Chrome focused, so YMMV. 1) Create a table if it doesn't already exist. Let's assume you have a table with 3 columns.2) Click into one of the columns, then right click and select "Inspect Element"3) You will see the HTML for the table. Relax, it's just text and we're not doing anything complex.3) In the <tr> section you will see <td>. By default Evernote adds a few attributes like rowspan, colspan and valign. Double click valign to make Chrome allow you to edit the value.4) Keep valign there, but use your keyboard arrows to move the cursor to the other side of the last double quote (").5) Type the following: width="30%" into each of the first <td> takes using the process from Step 4. This will make your <td> look like the so <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" width="30%">.6) Enjoy your balanced table. The same trick works for other sized tables. If you had 2 columns, width="50%". Please note that if you are looking at the tables on your phone (at least on my Android) or your tablet, the formatting might not be even. Tables will attempt to size themselves as best they can to the screen. If one cell has long, unbreakable text in it, the phone or tablet might have to compress one column to make room. On my iPad the columns spaced properly once I expanded the view of the note to full screen. Link to comment
kermit_the_frog 1 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears that this workaround is local to your browser and not saved back to Evernote. So Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc have the ability to let a developer tweak the elements in a web page while the browser renders it... but it doesn't affect the page stored on the server. This workaround is similar to copying a table out of Evernote and pasting it into MS Word for viewing. Link to comment
Patrick Davenport 2 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 See, that's weird. I closed all my Chrome instances down, went back in and still had everything in 3rds if I'm in full screen. If I change the size of the browser to anything else, the 3rds disappear. Given my guess of Evernote styling on the page, I think they would have to make the note display panel scrollable. I don't think they will do that. So, sadly, yea, only a partial work around at best. Sorry. Link to comment
SarahWC 0 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 +1 for the ability to do this in the app itself See, that's weird. I closed all my Chrome instances down, went back in and still had everything in 3rds if I'm in full screen. If I change the size of the browser to anything else, the 3rds disappear. Given my guess of Evernote styling on the page, I think they would have to make the note display panel scrollable. I don't think they will do that. So, sadly, yea, only a partial work around at best. Sorry. I got it to work using Chrome and it held up in the Mac app (although in Chrome I couldn't then change the alignment of the text in the table). Thanks for the work around though! Very helpful. Link to comment
Elessar 1 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Well, we've made it to April 2014 and this feature is still not part of the application. It will soon be old enough to vote for itself and buy it's own beer. Hey, Evernote team, this is pretty basic functionality that needs to be added to the product. Any chance we get this this decade? Link to comment
stephanebg 5 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 :-)At last something that make us laugh, thanks for that! Link to comment
Level 5 luckman212 164 Posted April 8, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted April 8, 2014 4 years later... still on the "to do list". Might as well add sorting of table data to the list. Maybe that will be here (in 10 years). Link to comment
David H. 0 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 While I agree that this feature should be in Evernote, there is a way around this. I use Chrome, but the trick should work in Firefox and probably IE since they too have "developer" tools. My steps are Chrome focused, so YMMV. 1) Create a table if it doesn't already exist. Let's assume you have a table with 3 columns.2) Click into one of the columns, then right click and select "Inspect Element"3) You will see the HTML for the table. Relax, it's just text and we're not doing anything complex.3) In the <tr> section you will see <td>. By default Evernote adds a few attributes like rowspan, colspan and valign. Double click valign to make Chrome allow you to edit the value.4) Keep valign there, but use your keyboard arrows to move the cursor to the other side of the last double quote (").5) Type the following: width="30%" into each of the first <td> takes using the process from Step 4. This will make your <td> look like the so <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" width="30%">.6) Enjoy your balanced table. The same trick works for other sized tables. If you had 2 columns, width="50%". Please note that if you are looking at the tables on your phone (at least on my Android) or your tablet, the formatting might not be even. Tables will attempt to size themselves as best they can to the screen. If one cell has long, unbreakable text in it, the phone or tablet might have to compress one column to make room. On my iPad the columns spaced properly once I expanded the view of the note to full screen. Awesome! This worked great for me in both Firefox and Chrome. Now I can resize tables easily. After following your instructions and changing a table width in a browser, just hitting the enter key saves the new width back to Evernote's servers. Then refreshing in my Evernote app running on my PC on the other monitor immediately shows the change. Now tables are going to be a lot more useful to me! Another post said that table widths could be changed in the browser by dragging corners. I was able to get that to work but it's kind of flakey. Basically, I had to change focus to another note, then click on the real note with the table in the snippets bar to bring it into focus but without clicking anywhere in the real note. Then double-clicking directly in a table cell brings up the little grabbers at the corners of the table for resizing. I prefer the direct html manipulation because it seems easier, more powerful and more reliable. Thank you so much!!! Link to comment
AdrianHalid 28 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Hi All, I thought I would share a Note Template with even column spacing. http://www.evernote.com/shard/s136/sh/2e08ee9b-d440-4ecd-9302-baf6735f13d4/cd18095461b8690d8499c765f3aaeced Just cut and paste the table size you want into your note. Saves you messing around with chrome developer tools. Also found this bookmarklet that will allow you to get to the source and edit it quickly. http://seb.so/html-source-editor-for-evernote-web-a-bookmarklet/ Link to comment
AdrianHalid 28 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Also to add to this I found a chrome extension Alternote. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alternote-editor/hljkfahiahjhhpmpihngnommookkneji This lets you edit notes with tinyMCE wysiwyg editor. You are able to customise table properties. You can edit the table to be 100% width and then set table cells to be 30% width etc. Link to comment
Level 5 Jackolicious 808 Posted May 28, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted May 28, 2014 We're actively working on this right now Keep your eyes peeled! Link to comment
SergeGardien 5 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 +1Jackolicious, what's the ETA? Link to comment
Level 5 Adjusting 276 Posted June 27, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Our betas have this feature. Evernote version 5.6+ Link to comment
Shawboy 0 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 +1 - This is one of my pet peeves with Evernote Side note for the curious: Changing the value in the HTML using Chrome's dev tools worked. I'm assuming changing the value there is a modification that the AJAX detects and uploads the change to the main servers. After in the app (Mac version) I re-sync'ed and the change was present. Link to comment
Level 5 Jackolicious 808 Posted September 11, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted September 11, 2014 We released a public beta of this feature already. It will be present in Evernote for Mac 5.6+ Link to comment
lfarkas 0 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 any chance for this in the web interface? after 4 years... Link to comment
mmmore 6 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 +1 - although it seems that this feature is now finally coming. Jackolicious mentions the Mac version of Evernote. Please make sure that it's also integrated in the Windows version. Thanks. Link to comment
mypointofview 14 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I updated the desktop version of Evernote for Mac to Version 5.6.0 (450741 Direct). In the news for Evernote it says: "With our new table editor you’ll be able to do all the things you expect from a table: delete a row or column, change the color, and drag to resize cells." However, when I try to make my table wider it doesn't work. I tried it on a brand new empty table (using pointer and contextual menu) and I'm a Premium user. I have 15+ years experience with the Mac and not blind. I tackled this issue on several different days. BTW I'm running Mountain Lion. Anybody else in the same situation? Link to comment
Mark Bunting 0 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Supporting this request too.... It would be great to have the feature of creating a table (as in Word) and ability to control the content for formatting purposes - left / right / column width etc. WYSIWYG Link to comment
Burger 0 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Copy the contents into Excel and change the width there. Then copy the contents back Link to comment
Level 5 Jackolicious 808 Posted November 19, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted November 19, 2014 This feature is supported in Evernote for Mac 5.6+ Link to comment
kray 4 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Where? I'm on a Mac, running 6.0. This feautre isn't in the table properties. You cannot drag the table to be wider. The table is forced to fit in the visible screen, which is not a good strategy because if the screen/window is small enough the text will wrap into single characters and the images will be so small you cannot see them. I've tried creating new tables too. The table is created ok and I can put content into the cells. But if I insert a new row or column the table is forced to fit the screen and screws up my table, with no way to fix it. This has messed up some very important notes. The tables are completely unusable in their current state. I put in a ticket but haven't heard anything yet. Link to comment
kray 4 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Here is an Apple Script that will open the selected note HTML on the desktop application into a pop-up window to allow you to edit the HTML. I was able to remove the style variable on the table that is making the table width 100%, which means, fit to page. tell application "Evernote" set theNotes to selection set currentNote to item 1 of theNotes set noteTitle to display dialog "Edit HTML of \"" & title of currentNote & "\"" default answer "" & HTML content of currentNote try set HTML content of currentNote to text returned of noteTitle end try end tell Link to comment
Pryn625 2 Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 We released a public beta of this feature already. It will be present in Evernote for Mac 5.6+ This is still unresolved in Evernote for WIndoes 5.8 - is there a Windows fix coming soon? Link to comment
Level 5 Jackolicious 808 Posted December 29, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted December 29, 2014 We're working on improving the editing experience significantly in Windows. Keep your eyes peeled! Link to comment
DrGerm 0 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 We released a public beta of this feature already. It will be present in Evernote for Mac 5.6+ Who cares about Mac? How about web, windows, and mobile versions? Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted February 22, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted February 22, 2015 We released a public beta of this feature already. It will be present in Evernote for Mac 5.6+ Who cares about Mac? How about web, windows, and mobile versions? Evernote and lots of its customers care about Mac. They also care about web, Windows and mobile versions. We're working on improving the editing experience significantly in Windows. Keep your eyes peeled! Link to comment
maverator 6 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 This feature is supported in Evernote for Mac 5.6+Q: Where exactly? A: About a half inch to the left of where it should be, i.e. in the middle of the cell to the left of the column border. smh Link to comment
Chenxiong Qi 0 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Any further progress till now? Resizing table in Web edition is really really useful for me. Link to comment
jazbek 0 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 This feature is supported in Evernote for Mac 5.6+Q: Where exactly? A: About a half inch to the left of where it should be, i.e. in the middle of the cell to the left of the column border. smh I'm using Evernote 6.0.9 and I can't find this.. tried looking where the note above suggested and still don't see anything. I have a 3 column table that used to be 2 columns. The first column is 50% the width and the 2nd two columns are each 25% after I inserted the 3rd column.. I need to resize them. Edit: as an aside, the solution in note 22: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/8882-change-width-of-table-after-insert/?p=267329still works, but you have to edit the width of each cell in the first row, and possibly subsequent rows, since they all have an explicit width set now, in the inspector. Link to comment
alaniswright 1 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 +1 for this post. I'm a big user of tables in notes i make, and this is holding me back from embracing Evernote fully. Link to comment
Level 5 Jackolicious 808 Posted June 22, 2015 Level 5 Share Posted June 22, 2015 alaniswright, you can select the checkbox to enable beta features and updates in your windows client to turn on table resizing. Enjoy! Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,039 Posted June 22, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted June 22, 2015 @Jacko, Not quite so quick on the enjoy. With the new betathe formatting of existing tables gets hosed, as in wrapping in the middle of words, fixed column width tables that were created with the stuffing x's in the columns workaround no longer work breaking the table when you delete a character in any cell in the table (example here - https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/85667-new-evernote-for-windows-589-beta)./?p=365084)So yes, you can change the column width, but other things happen that one may or may not like. Link to comment
kpmaynard 0 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Thank you very much. The width attribute worked for me on my Macbook Pro. The table was completely stable afterwards. Link to comment
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