org: Column view
7.5 Column view
===============
A great way to view and edit properties in an outline tree is _column
view_. In column view, each outline node is turned into a table row.
Columns in this table provide access to properties of the entries. Org
mode implements columns by overlaying a tabular structure over the
headline of each item. While the headlines have been turned into a
table row, you can still change the visibility of the outline tree. For
example, you get a compact table by switching to CONTENTS view (āS-<TAB>
S-<TAB>ā, or simply ācā while column view is active), but you can still
open, read, and edit the entry below each headline. Or, you can switch
to column view after executing a sparse tree command and in this way get
a table only for the selected items. Column view also works in agenda
buffers (Agenda Views) where queries have collected selected
items, possibly from a number of files.
Menu