Text hidden and does not wrap in new Reports

The design concept of the new reports is that they are meant to load extremely quickly since that was a big complaint of the V2 Table reports.  The design concept is that the developer sets the row height on the report to their best guess at what would be mostly appropriate and the users should be provided with the instruction to use the icon near the top right of the screen to adjust the row height, if they are looking at records which have a lot of text.

Quickbase added a native option for this after the thread was posted, so it’s worth a second look.

Mark’s explanation of fixed row heights matched how grid reports worked at the time. As of the November 2, 2026 release, grid reports can use a dynamic row height that sizes each row to fit one text column.

To turn it on, open the report settings (or the table’s default report settings), go to Options > Default row height, choose Dynamic, and pick the column that should set the height. It can be a text, multi-line text or rich text field, including formula versions. Save the report.

Each row grows only as much as that column’s text needs, up to 650 pixels, so a one-line comment stays short instead of every row going to Max. Users can also switch a report to it from the Row options button on the report’s page bar.

Release note:

https://resources.quickbase.com/nav/app/bu9ax9c5r/table/bu9a2h65e/action/dr?rid=1059&ifv=1