Title: column width issues
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# column width issues

 *  Resolved [Giovanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giogoat/)
 * (@giogoat)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/)
 * Hello,
 * I am new to Tablepress, which seems just the plugin I need! But I have an issue.
   I imported successfully a 4 column table in format xlsx, and then proceded to
   change the width of the main column, the first.
 * The code I changed is to set the 1st column width to 1000px and the ‘padding-
   left’ of the 4th column to 50. Nothing else.
 * The table at first shows fine but as soon as I order the secondo or third column
   I get 2 issues: the width of the 1st column goes smaller again and the width 
   of the whole table overlaps the sidebar.
 * Can you please help? Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Giovanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giogoat/)
 * (@giogoat)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566344)
 * somehow if I put the link to my blog that causes the post non to be saved…
 * I try again here: ‘[http://blog.pianetadonna.it/msp/ricerca-ricette/&#8217](http://blog.pianetadonna.it/msp/ricerca-ricette/&#8217);
 *  Thread Starter [Giovanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giogoat/)
 * (@giogoat)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566345)
 * somehow if I put the link to my blog that causes the post non to be saved…
 * I tried in many ways but nothing, how can I give you the link?
 *  Thread Starter [Giovanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giogoat/)
 * (@giogoat)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566363)
 * previous post worked, great! I will wait for some help them 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566490)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The cause for this is that multiple of the space characters in the lists in the
   third column are so-called “non-breaking” spaces. This means that the browser
   can not add word-wrapping (a line break) there.
 * Can you maybe try importing the table again after saving it to a CSV file in 
   Excel? That might already solve this.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Giovanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giogoat/)
 * (@giogoat)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566498)
 * Thanks a lot Tobias, it works! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566501)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-width-issues-8/#post-7566501)
 * Status: resolved