Make the unhide column function in Project as easy as Excel

[AMRogers]

If you hide a column in Project revealing it is not as easy to do as it is in
Excel. Users are required to remember the field name and some formatting has
to be repeated, with one column it is fine but projects can become quite
large and it is necessary to hide several columns.

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[Dean C]

It is easy to see when columns are hidden in Excel because of the ability to
display column headers. Implementing your suggestion would necessarily
include some means of displaying a visual clue that there is a column with
zero width.

If you hide and redisplay columns regularly, I suggest putting the "More
Tables" icon on a toolbar. The icon does the same thing as View,Tables,More
Tables and will enable you to see your entire table and all 20 of the
identical fields you've made zero width.

I use a custom toolbar that contains the icons MoreViews (for editing
views), but renamed simply "View" to provide context for the next icon, the
dropdown list of Views (for displaying the current view name), and similar
combinations of two icons for tables, filters and groups.

Another alternative is to create other tables that do not contain the fields
you want hidden at times, and simply switch back and forth between tables.