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Edit Line Show larger Text Area boxes

I have a sheet where users write paragraphs of text on 2 columns. A simple way to edit the cells on the line in SmartSheet is to click edit row. However the columns with the paragraphs of text only show about 2 lines in a scroll region. It is difficult to see all the text and add or edit it whith such a small viewing area.

Is there a way to make those areas larger when doing an edit row?

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  • Travis
    Travis Employee

    Hi Ramon, there isn’t a way to increase the size of these text box when in the Edit Row view. I will submit this request to our product team for consideration in future development. If you have a field with a large amount of text, you might consider editing from the row itself, rather than the Edit Row menu.

  • Have you also tried to toggle word wrap on/off? I use a text column for my Project Managers to provide a status summary, next to a column with status color. When i want to focus on seeing the status colors, I turn off word wrap. When I want to focus on the status summaries, I turn on word wrap for that column. Each row will have a different height while that's toggled on, but I'm ok with that.

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@Filippo<\/a>, the most inelegant but dead simple thing to do is this:<\/p>

=IF(IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/1569/\", [Project Lead]:[Project Lead], [Project Lead]@row), \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/1569/\")<\/strong>=0, \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/1569/\", IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/1569/\", [Project Lead]:[Project Lead], [Project Lead]@row), \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/1569/\")<\/strong>)<\/p>

Simplified, it's just this:<\/p>

=IF(<your formula> = 0, \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/1569/\", <your formula>)<\/p>"},{"commentID":383252,"body":"

Very clever Lucas! Simple IF statement logic. It works perfectly, thanks!!!<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":107107,"type":"question","name":"Formula that counts how many rows have a date in the past","excerpt":"Hi! I need help with creating a formula that will count how many rows in my column called End Date have dates in the past. I've tried the following and it gives an \"unparseable\" error: =COUNTIFS([End Date]:[End Date], \"<=\" & TODAY()) Thanks in advance for your help!","snippet":"Hi! I need help with creating a formula that will count how many rows in my column called End Date have dates in the past. I've tried the following and it gives an \"unparseable\"…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-06-29T20:39:23+00:00","dateUpdated":"2023-06-29T20:39:58+00:00","dateLastComment":"2023-06-29T20:52:03+00:00","insertUserID":162796,"insertUser":{"userID":162796,"name":"Beth M","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Beth%20M","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/avatarstock\/n7ZG0TBD44T33.png","dateLastActive":"2023-06-29T21:23:37+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"updateUserID":162796,"lastUserID":161714,"lastUser":{"userID":161714,"name":"Carson Penticuff","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Carson%20Penticuff","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B0Q390EZX8XK\/nBGT0U1689CN6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T02:47:38+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":1,"countViews":20,"score":null,"hot":3376143686,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107107\/formula-that-counts-how-many-rows-have-a-date-in-the-past","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107107\/formula-that-counts-how-many-rows-have-a-date-in-the-past","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[254],"lastPost":{"discussionID":107107,"commentID":383217,"name":"Re: Formula that counts how many rows have a date in the past","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/383217#Comment_383217","dateInserted":"2023-06-29T20:52:03+00:00","insertUserID":161714,"insertUser":{"userID":161714,"name":"Carson Penticuff","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Carson%20Penticuff","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B0Q390EZX8XK\/nBGT0U1689CN6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T02:47:38+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-29T20:54:25+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-29T20:52:03+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":383217,"body":"

You are very close, try this.<\/p>

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CHILDREN will only look at entries one level down. DESCENDANTS will look at all levels below current.<\/p>"},{"commentID":383208,"body":"

Thank you Carson, very helpful!<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]}],"initialPaging":{"nextURL":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/api\/v2\/discussions?page=2&includeChildCategories=1&type%5B0%5D=Question&excludeHiddenCategories=1&siteSectionID=0&sort=-hot&limit=3&expand%5B0%5D=all&expand%5B1%5D=-body&expand%5B2%5D=insertUser&expand%5B3%5D=lastUser&status=accepted","prevURL":null,"currentPage":1,"total":10000,"limit":3},"title":"Trending Posts","subtitle":null,"description":null,"noCheckboxes":true,"containerOptions":[],"discussionOptions":[]}">

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