Text Appearance
Customize how column values appear using Text appearance settings. You can style text, align content horizontally, control vertical position, and choose whether text flows horizontally or vertically.
Quick guide
- Open Column settings.
- Open the Display section for the column.
- Find Text appearance.
- Choose a Text style: bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough.
- Select horizontal alignment, vertical position, and text direction as needed.
- Click Save to apply changes.
Tip: Use text appearance settings to make dense tables easier to scan without changing the underlying data.
Text appearance
Text appearance controls how values are displayed inside the cells of a column. These settings live inside the column Display panel.
Text style
Text style lets you apply simple emphasis to the values in a column.
- Bold makes values stand out visually.
- Italic is useful for notes, secondary values, or softer emphasis.
- Underline can help indicate references or values that need attention.
- Strikethrough is useful for deprecated, cancelled, or no-longer-active values.
Horizontal alignment
Horizontal alignment controls where content sits from left to right inside the cell. Available options are left, center, and right.
Left alignment usually works best for text. Right alignment is useful for numbers, prices, and comparable metrics. Center alignment can work well for short labels or status values.
Vertical position
Vertical position controls where content sits from top to bottom inside taller cells. Available options are top, middle, and bottom.
This is useful when rows contain wrapped text, multiline notes, or cells with different content heights.
Text direction
Text direction controls whether values are displayed horizontally or vertically. Horizontal text is the default for most tables. Vertical text can be useful for narrow columns, compact headers, or tables where space is limited.
Use vertical text sparingly. It can save horizontal space, but it may reduce readability for longer values.
What to expect
- Text appearance changes how values are shown, not the source data itself.
- Settings are configured per column.
- Combining too many styles can make a table harder to scan.
- Text direction and vertical position are most useful in dense or space-constrained tables.
Finance Operations
Mikado Ltd. — Budget Planning
Context:
The team prepares quarterly financial summaries using Simple Tables. Key metrics like Total and Profit margin must be easy to identify.
Setup:
They apply bold text style to the Status column to highlight values such as "Over Budget" or "OK".
Cancelled rows use strikethrough, numeric columns are right-aligned, and compact label columns use vertical text direction where space is limited.
Impact:
The table becomes easier to scan, allowing faster interpretation of key financial data.
Combine text style, alignment, vertical position, and text direction to improve visual clarity while keeping your table structured and consistent.
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