drworthington wrote:
Can specific columns be made wider or is there another solution?
With the window open, click and hold your mouse button at the edge of the box with the column name. An arrow will appear and you can drag the arrow to decrease or increase the width.
A variation which might by of use in some cases is to go to the view menu, select the column choice and then uncheck any columns in which there are no entries. Using a combination of these two usually will provide sufficient width.
Hope this helps