Changing View Options for ALL Playlists together

    This question has remained without simple answer in spite of being asked many times. I think that I have an answer, the procedure is the following:
(1) Open the "source" iTunes Library
(2) File/Library/Export Library…          Save the list of Playlists
(3) Close the "source iTunes Library
(4) Create a new "destination" iTunes folder
(5) Import one (or more) song from a CD
(6) Select Music on top of the LIBRARY window
(7) View/View Options…                               Set the View Options as desired
(8) File/Library/Import Library…          Import the list of Playlists saved in (2)
(9) Remove the auxiliary song(s) introduced in (5)
     In the "destination" iTunes folder, the View Options of ALL playlist are those set in (7), irrespective of what they were in the "source". This works using iTunes 10.5 on an Intel iMac runing OSX 10.6.8, and presumably also with other configurations.
Any simpler, faster, or less memory greedy solution?

I'm not sure about a PC, but with a Mac you hold down the Control key and click on the right-most column's title bar. A menu of columns shows up with your current columns having check marks beside them. Just check or un-check the ones you want. To resize a column, click on the thin vertical line that separates the columns' names. Your cursor should change to a two-way arrow when you move across the adjustment line - just like in a spread sheet. Just click on the line and drag its width to suit you.
HTH
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