Howto: Add 4th Column in iGoogle

A guide to add a 4th column to your iGoogle homepage:

1. Choose the dropdown arrow on the tab you want to add the 4th column to and hit “edit this tab” to access the settings

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2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page where you see “Export / Import”

3. Click on the button where it says “Export.” A window will come up– press okay to save the file on your computerpicture-2

4. Right click on the file and hit “open with” and choose your favorite text editor (notepad in windows or textedit on mac works fine)

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5. find where it says this:

<Layout iGoogle:spec="THREE_COL_LAYOUT_1" />

6. Change where is says THREE to FOUR and save the file:

<Layout iGoogle:spec="FOUR_COL_LAYOUT_1" />

7. Now its just a matter of uploading the edited file so go back to the settings page hit “Browse…” find the file on your computer and hit “Upload” and finally hit “Save” to apply the new settings.

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If everything worked you should see a new radio button under “Layout” that says “4 columns” like this and an extra column will appear to add your widgets to.

13 responses to “Howto: Add 4th Column in iGoogle”

  1. heartless_

    Just to note:

    can exist as or other #’s.

    This “hack” only works with .

    LAYOUT_2 must be changed to _1 to get it to work.

  2. heartless_

    Wow, yanked all my code away.

    Anyways, what I was saying was that some people will have a different LAYOUT_ #.

    This hack only works with FOUR_COL_LAYOUT_1 , so if you see FOUR_COL_LAYOUT_2 and wonder why its not working, that would be why.

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  4. kasper910

    i am an amateur and it took about 15 min. but it work perfect thanks alot

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  8. VernoWhitney

    There is also the invisible option of TWO_COL_LAYOUT_3 which provides a larger column on the left and a smaller column on the right (i.e., the mirror image of TWO_COL_LAYOUT_2 which is selectable in the regular fashion).

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