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I've been using Opus 9 for about 5 weeks. I love it. I am strongly considering buying multiple licenses. There is one piece of functionality that I've spent hours trying to find/figure out. If I can make this work, I will buy it.

How do I do this:

Any time I click on any folder anywhere, I want the name column to automatically optimize to the width of the name of the longest file name in that folder. In other words, when I enter a folder, I want to be able to see the entire file name of every file in that folder. I would even be happy to learn how to save this setting for individual folders.

2

What you want is called Auto-Size in Opus and there are a number of ways you can invoke it either automatically or manually. The easiest way to get started is to create a toolbar button with the command

Set AUTOSIZECOLUMNS

After that you can look at setting up folder formats or styles to do it automatically for you.

3

Thank you so much for your response. I appreciate your time and consideration. I am still confused...so sorry. I spent the last 20 minutes trying to figure out how to AUTOSIZECOLUMNS. I did a search on this command, and there are two results. There is a wealth of information on the multitude of commands available...but nothing that seems to explain how you execute the commands.

Is there a command prompt? How do you execute all of these commands? I can tell that so much time and thought and work and effort has gone into this application. I want to love it. But I don't want to have to spend hours to learn how to use it. Make it more user friendly and you have something amazing on your hands...

[Paste of half the Opus manual snipped --Leo :slight_smile:]

4

Posting a massive wall-o-text isn't gonna help you mate.

Anyway here is a screenshot of how you can access it in the GUI.
img172.imageshack.us/img172/8004 ... ickab7.jpg

5

See the Toolbars 1 video in the Tutorials part of the forum to learn the basics of creating buttons.

Or just turn the auto-size option on via Tools -> Folder Options -> Display. Then see the Folder Formats FAQ (at the top of the list) for how to set it on for all folders if that's what you want.

(Sorry, no links, in a hurry!)

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[quote="igl"]Posting a massive wall-o-text isn't gonna help you mate.

Anyway here is a screenshot of how you can access it in the GUI.
img172.imageshack.us/img172/8004 ... ickab7.jpg[/quote]

Cheers...you are right...sorry I was frustrated and behaved immaturely...Admin or Mod, please delete/edit my last post...looking at it now...it's embarrassing...sorry

And thanks for your help!!

7

igl...thanks again for your help...your screenshot saved the day! I got it to work!

8

Grimmwor,

I don't know if this is what igl's screenshot showed.

Right click a column heading.

Select More... in the dropdown.

Select the Display tab.

Check Auto-size columns.