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by j_s 5083 days ago
> - Browsing a table is very slow on tables with large columns.

Last time I did this I used a fixed-width column when displaying text fields. Everything built-in was able to handle things smoothly when clipping to just the first __ characters. (Of course you can't see it all then, but I've found it useful enough... and can paste a cell elsewhere to see all of it.)

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Thanks a ton. That is really helpful. I will see if changing to fixed width is feasible when string length is above a threshold.