# Table View tweaks to improve usability
**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/table-view-tweaks-to-improve-usability/3662
**Category:** Ideas & Features
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-view-tweaks-to-improve-usability/3662 "2022-12-06T18:06:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-view-tweaks-to-improve-usability/3662/1 "2022-12-06T18:06:01Z")
- During cell editing, adopt “standard spreadsheet behavior” for `TAB` and `Shift+TAB`; I.e., finish editing the current cell and move to the next/previous cell. If at the end of the row, move to the first cell in the next row; If at the end of the last row, create a new entity.
- For RTF columns, allow editing the cell value via a small, fast popup. It would be very useful to allow quick, seamless entry/editing of RTF field contents without having to open the entity view (even if that means we can’t do complete RTF formatting).
- For RTF columns, replace the “page icon” currently displayed in the cell with the actual (truncated) text value. Even unformatted text would be preferable to nothing.
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**REF:**
> [@Entry speed improvements](https://community.fibery.io/t/entry-speed-improvements/1297):
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> Entry speed leads to saving time, follow is some suggestions to speed up the process of inputting things into the table: Import, Export from whatever table related tools: excel, airtable, notion, coda … Navigation by keyboard hotkeys Ability to input content to the active cell without pressing Enter. (just like google spreadsheet and Excel)
> [@Improvements to table view](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvements-to-table-view/840):
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> I’m really glad to see the table view got batch delete options and soon batch copy-paste, however I would like to request a few other features that we need quite a lot. Speed improvements, especially on scrolling and creating new items - even for small datasets the scrolling is laggy, the new scrolling performance for card views is amazing… this is what I would expect on tables as well. When creating a new item, it’s also slow - i understand it waits to create a new entity but it should be th…
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### Author:  [@YvetteLans](https://community.fibery.io/u/YvetteLans)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-view-tweaks-to-improve-usability/3662/2 "2022-12-08T17:29:16Z")
Agree!
> [@Matt\_Blais](#):
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> During cell editing, adopt “standard spreadsheet behavior” for `TAB` and `Shift+TAB`; I.e., finish editing the current cell and move to the next/previous cell. If at the end of the row, move the the first cell in the next row; If at the end of the last row, create a new entity.
This would be also very helpful for tables within documents/rich text fields 😄
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### Author:  [@nathan\_jay](https://community.fibery.io/u/nathan_jay)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-view-tweaks-to-improve-usability/3662/3 "2026-02-28T05:36:20Z")
Adding to this for improvements suggestions:
- Right align column headers for Number
- Choose alignment for Text (right, left, centre). In the example below, I want the Text field to be right align because its actually a number which I must store as text because it’s too large.
- Number formats use similar notation to Excel so I can display “-” for 0 and (Red) for negative. It make’s it far easier to visually scan tables and find outliers and opposites (positive/negative) in data
Examples for the Excel like formatting:
Define the cell formatting with notations:
