Recipe 4 – manipulating columns
In this recipe, you will learn how the columns in OpenRefine can be collapsed and expanded again, moved around in any direction, or renamed and removed at leisure.
Columns are an essential part of OpenRefine: they contain thousands of values of the same nature and can be manipulated in a number of ways.
Collapsing and expanding columns
By default, all columns are expanded in OpenRefine, which can be cumbersome if there are many in the project. If you want to temporarily hide one or more columns to facilitate the work on the others, click on the dropdown in any column to show the menu and select View. Four options are available to you:
- Collapse this column
- Collapse all other columns
- Collapse columns to left
- Collapse columns ...
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