---
title: "Pinning and arranging columns"
canonical: https://syncek.com/docs/views/columns-and-layout
locale: en
author: "Syncek"
---

# Pinning and arranging columns

Syncek lets you pin up to three columns to each side of a table, so they stay in
view while the other columns scroll sideways. The first column, which names each
record, is always pinned on the left and takes one of those three places. To pin
another, click its header and choose **Pin to left** or **Pin to right**. Pinned
columns are saved with the view, so on a shared view everyone sees them.

## Pinning a column

- **From the column.** Click a column's header, or right-click it, and choose
  **Pin to left** or **Pin to right**. On a pinned column the menu offers the other
  side and **Unpin**.
- **From View settings.** **View settings**, above the table, shows
  **Pinned left** and **Pinned right** above the other columns, each with how many
  of its three places are taken. Drag a column into either one, or use the menu at
  the end of its row.
- **A full side takes no more.** Unpin one of its columns first.
- **A pinned column always shows.** It cannot be hidden until you unpin it.

On a narrow window, a pinned column that does not fit scrolls with the others and
stays pinned for when there is room.

## Showing, moving and renaming columns

Below the pinned columns, **View settings** lists all the others. The switch on a
row shows or hides that column, and dragging the row moves it. In a column's header
menu, **Move left**, **Move right** and **Hide from view** do the same one column at
a time.

**Edit column label**, in the same menu, renames a column in this view only. The
attribute keeps its name everywhere else, and **Reset column label** brings the
original back.

## What the view keeps

Pinned and hidden columns, their order and renamed labels are saved with the view as
you change them, with no save button, and anyone but a Guest can change them. On a
shared view the change reaches everyone who opens it, see
[Saved views](https://syncek.com/docs/views/saved-views). Column widths stay on the device where you set
them, and row height is personal, see [Personal settings](https://syncek.com/docs/account/personal-settings).

## The Notes page and the Emails area

The **Notes** page and the lists under **Folders** in the Emails area, such as
**Inbox** and **Sent**, pin columns the same way. A few columns are always pinned
there and count toward the three: **Title** on **Notes**, and **From** and
**Subject** on the left and the date on the right in the Emails area. Column labels
cannot be renamed there.