# Kibana Look and feel **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-look-and-feel/140637 **Category:** Kibana **Created:** [July 19, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-look-and-feel/140637 "2018-07-19T00:13:13Z") **Posts on this page:** 3 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![ColinBaxter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@ColinBaxter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ColinBaxter) #### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-look-and-feel/140637/1 "2018-07-19T00:13:13Z")
Hi there, as a new user to Kibana I am very impressed. Is there a way to narrow the columns width (like excel - sorry) ? So in the pic below the FIID is only 4 characters wide but displays as 20 ish ![ColumnWidths](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/b/abce93f4d06e98be9947b8efb012cdb1c060c54e.png) Many thanks in anticipation Col ---
### Author: ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz) #### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-look-and-feel/140637/2 "2018-07-19T20:59:02Z")
Unfortunately options are limited ATM. We're tracking issues at [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1896](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1896) and [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/737](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/737). The only option now is to use set the shortDots option in advanced settings. It'll truncate the field names `headx.crd.fiid.byte -> h.c.f.byte` ---
### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system) #### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-look-and-feel/140637/3 "2018-08-16T20:59:16Z")
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