Constrain column view to one line

Question

I have a task list that has a single-line text column, a Status column and a Modified By column (among others).

It appears that the default view has the single-line text column taking up all the room it can, making the status and modified by column go to 2-line formatting. I'd like to force the Status and Modified By columns to display on only one line, and let the single-line text go to 2-lines if it needs to.

How would I go about getting the single-line text column to lose priority for space?

EDIT: I did the cheap fix of making the column names larger, but would like a better solution (I used underscores).

Answer 1

SharePoint does not allow this out-of-the-box.

You can:

• customize column width using SharePoint Designer (but it may break some things),
• dig into this jQuery solution (previous SharePoint+jQuery experience would be useful; let me just warn you that you may run into the loading the jQuery-from-Google-CDN-fails problem).