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# setAutoresizesAllColumnsToFit:

Controls whether the table view proportionally resizes its columns to fit when its superview’s frame changes.

```
- (void) setAutoresizesAllColumnsToFit:(BOOL) flag;
```

## Discussion

If `flag` is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true>, the difference in width is distributed among the table view’s table columns; if `flag` is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false>, only the last column is resized to fit.

To preserve compatibility this method sets the autoresizing style to [`NSTableView.ColumnAutoresizingStyle.uniformColumnAutoresizingStyle`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableView/ColumnAutoresizingStyle-swift.enum/uniformColumnAutoresizingStyle) , if `flag` is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true>.  Otherwise the autoresizing style is set to [`NSTableView.ColumnAutoresizingStyle.lastColumnOnlyAutoresizingStyle`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableView/ColumnAutoresizingStyle-swift.enum/lastColumnOnlyAutoresizingStyle).

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