Changing column width in Finder

Is it possible to permanently widen a column in Finder? I have 1000s of documents that all appear in one long list which I have to laboriously scroll through, but every time I try to find a document I have to manually widen the column so I can see the whole file name because many of them start the same. Its driving me bonkers. I also want it to do what Windows Explorer does. That is, to see my files from one folder across several columns so that I can see more of them at once without laboriously scrolling.

Darren (and Adolf too)
That thing drives me up the wall. The MacOS used to have an excellent hierarchical folder browser that only ever required one click to navigate wherever you want, and the filenames could be a mile long if you wanted them to be.
Fortunately my life has been saved by a third-party add-on called Classic Menu. GIve it a try. Suddenly your life will be approximately 85% easier and you won't get Repetitive Strain Injury from all those 24/7 mouse clicks and wrist movements.
Here it is.....
http://www.sigsoftware.com/classicmenu/
Don't ask me why Apple discontinued the hierarchical drop-down navigation menu. It's one of a number of strange, wrongheaded decisions Apple has been taking these past years.

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I found a new Kde launcher a few months ago, I find great (of course this is only my opinion).
It is the smaller version (not full screen) Homerun , which is available in Aur at the following address : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdep … s-homerun/ , which can be seen in the following link : http://blogs.kde.org/2014/01/29/homerun-120 , although the current version is slightly advanced.
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