Kuovonne's Guide to Airtable

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Kuovonne's Guide to Airtable

Kuovonne's Guide to Airtable

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Column Divider Fields

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Airtable does not currently support grouping columns together. Here are two workarounds for visually grouping columns together.

Formula field

Use a formula field with an emoji to create a visual. Create several and put them in different places for different views.

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Here is what the column divider looks like in a grid view.

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Single select field with default value

Create a single-select field with one choice, and set that choice as the default value. Then manually set a the value for all existing records.

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Here is what the column divider looks like in a grid view.

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An added benefit of this method is that you can use a single-select divider field for visual grouping in a form field.

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