The UI is only switched for D&D operation. All cells that will be affected by the resize are colored and you get an immediate feedback on which cell will change in which way - an information that was completely unavailable before. As soon as you drop, the UI switches back with the exact result of the operation: There's also a number of keyboard modifiers that change the behavior on the fly now. Dragging with "Shift" will resize all following columns to match the new size of the resized columns. "Alt" will temporarily flip whatever you chose for the "Change Width Individually" setting. And "Ctrl" will make sure to only resize one column, even if, there are other matching columns, e.g. in a header or footer line. These shortcuts are handily displayed in the status bar during the resize operation.
Jochen Bartlau leads the development at combit as Managing Director. He's a Microsoft .NET enthusiast driving innovation & agile project management. The mobile devices geek who used to be a physicist in his first life loves to spend his spare time with his family.