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Shorten Column Width

I have a report called "Vendor List". Which lists Vendor Name, Address, etc. One of the fields we created is "Keywords", a text field where we include former names of the vendor, or AKA names...

The Keywords field is making my Vendor list report very long, as some vendors have many key words or phrases. I'd like to keep it on the report, because anyone can search a keyword to return a vendor. But the report is not "clean". I created a truncated text field so that report's column width is shorter, but now searching by keyword will not work.



Is there a way to limit the column size on the report, and still be able to search within this field int the report?
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      Ok, so I have a magic answer.

      Make a formula rich field type and concatenate all the fields that you want to search into one field  and make a fake hyperlink.  The field will be searchable but invisible to the naked eye.

      Add the field as the last column of the report and either override the column heading with a dot for a label or just call the field [.] 

      It will be a skinny field at the end of the report that no one will notice but magically all the extra fields you need searched will be searched using the filter box.


      var text URL = List(" ", [sub 1], [sub 2], [sub 40]); // put the extra fields to be searched here
      var text Words = "";

      "<a href=" & $URL & ">" & $Words & "</a>
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