If you want trim data past a certain length and manually specify column widths, you can pass a `Width` property for each property attribute.

For example, if you wanted your data to look like this:



    Column 1    Column 2      Column 3      Column 4
    --------    --------      --------      --------
    Data        Lorem ip...   Lorem ip...   Important data


Here's the basic `Format-Table` syntax, with a list of explicit properties:



    $data | Format-Table -Property Col1, Col2, Col3, Col4 -AutoSize

Instead of just passing in the property names, we can add some [additional metadata to `Property`][1]:

    $a = @{Expression={$_.Col1}; Label="Column 1"; Width=30}, 
         @{Expression={$_.Col2}; Label="Column 2"; Width=30}, 
         @{Expression={$_.Col3}; Label="Column 3"; Width=30}, 
         @{Expression={$_.Col4}; Label="Column 4"; Width=30}
    $data | Format-Table -Property $a

**Note**: I realize this is covered at the bottom of mklement0's more complete answer, but if this is your use case and you're scrolling quickly, I hope this helps highlight this strategy at a high level

[1]: https://superuser.com/a/956308/180163

I am trying to get the last reboot time of some PCs from a list. When I use 

    foreach ($pc in $pclist) {
      Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName $pc |
        select csname, lastbootuptime 
    }

The output comes as following.

<pre>csname       lastbootuptime
------       --------------
CONFA7-L1-1A 7/15/2016 9:55:16 AM
CONFA7-L1-1F 5/31/2016 8:51:46 AM
CONFA7-L1-1G 6/18/2016 11:09:15 AM
CONFA7-L1... 6/26/2016 5:31:31 PM
CONFA7-L3... 7/24/2016 3:48:43 PM</pre>

Which is neat, but if the PC name is long, I am unable to see the full name. 
So I pipelined `Format-Table`:

    Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName $pc |
      select csname, lastbootuptime |
      Format-Table  -HideTableHeaders 

And this is what I get:

<pre>CONFA7-L1-1A 7/15/2016 9:55:16 AM



CONFA7-L1-1E 7/21/2016 12:58:16 PM



CONFA7-L1-1F 5/31/2016 8:51:46 AM</pre>

There are two problems here. 

1. There is no heading. If I remove `-HideTableHeaders` there will be heading for every output which is not required.

1. There is a lot of white spaces in between.

Basically I just need to get an output similar to the first one, but without truncating the full names. How can I fix these?
