PSA: How to make columns equally wide

A quick and non-obvious trick to make columns equally wide.

Just select multiple columns with shift pressed, then resize one of them, and all selected ones will get resized to the same width:

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Woah, like woaahh!

This is a really big thing actually! Oh I’ve spent so many hours trying to make columns equal width, and I have over 80 columns in a table!

I’ve actually learned two things here - I didn’t know that you could select multiple columns with shift either!

A single page (like Coda’s formula directory) with all these tips would be suuuper helpful

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A range of columns can be selected all at once by clicking the first and then the last while holding Shift. Selecting a range of items this way is actually a classic shortcut and most (all?) spreadsheets support it.