Changing sort order changes column width

I turned on column sorting (Report Attributes -> Sort checkbox) for a particular column. Now when I sort descending on that column, it seems to disable word-wrap and the width of the column increases dramatically.
Does anyone know why this happens or how to prevent it?

The width of the column would be the width of the widest bit of text within the column.
You can fix the width of a column by entering the following into the HTML Expression for the column definition:
<table><col style="width:100px;"><tr><td>#COLUMN_NAME#</td></tr></table>
Regards
Andy

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