Bob,
We will definitely clean those steps up to be more thorough, sorry about that!
As for getting your columns to stay fixed to your adjusted width, you should be able to handle that in your Preference Set. For any RefNote Division you have User Fields set to, you can select a User Field from the list and click Edit. You will be able to set the width of that column there. This process is going to work best as a Table Schedule type.
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