On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Derek Neighbors wrote:

> Matt Alexander said:
> > Sometimes when I open an OpenOffice document a column will be so wide
> > that I can never grab the right side of it to make it smaller.  When I
> > scroll to the right it automatically jumps to the next column.
> > Has anyone experienced this and know of a fix?
> 
> Never experienced it.  Quick fix.  Click on the column header, so the
> whole column is then highlighted.  Right mouse click.  You will be given a
> menu.  Select "Column Width".  Enter a smaller value and you should be
> able to then see the whole column.

Thanks!  That fixed it.

> What version of Open Office on what platform?

OpenOffice 1.1.0 on RH 9.