How to create a table larger than the page width?
Asked by Russell R Rutledge:

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!


Answers:
author: Katerina Rudkovskaya [Stiltsoft]
body: Hi [@Russell R Rutledge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5438562),

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If you need to create big tables in Confluence, we can suggest looking into 3rd party apps with spreadsheets.

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For example, our company develops the [Table Filter, Charts \& Spreadsheets for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-charts-spreadsheets-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) app that includes the [Table Spreadsheet](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/how-to-use-table-spreadsheet-macro-83100938.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macro.

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The macro provides all the basic Excel-like features (cell formulas, filtration, conditional formatting, etc.).

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![Mon 3-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/308677iE140F654ED7AA8B0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 3-1.png")

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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.

comments: author: Russell R Rutledge
body: Luckily, it looks like my organization has this macro. Will check it out.


author: Nathan Possante
body: [@Russell R Rutledge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5438562)

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:

![confluence_table_width_edit.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/331446i09EBDE87E53943F1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_table_width_edit.JPG")

And this is what it looks like in the preview:

![confluence_table_width_preview.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/331447i1F2237727613D682/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_table_width_preview.JPG")

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.


author: Marc - Devoteam
body: Hi [@Russell R Rutledge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5438562)

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.

![Screenshot 2024-02-26 at 12.35.08.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/308624iDD3A9431496BEAAF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2024-02-26 at 12.35.08.png")

comments: author: Russell R Rutledge
body: I can't drag it wider than the screen. My mouse can't drag it off the screen.


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Russell R Rutledge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5438562) 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>

comments: author: Russell R Rutledge
body: I'm not seeing how to make the table larger than the screen width :(


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Russell R Rutledge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5438562) 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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