diff --git a/packages/nc-gui-v2/components/smartsheet/Grid.vue b/packages/nc-gui-v2/components/smartsheet/Grid.vue
index 624049a0a4..b704481b6f 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui-v2/components/smartsheet/Grid.vue
+++ b/packages/nc-gui-v2/components/smartsheet/Grid.vue
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <script lang="ts" setup>
-import { computed } from '@vue/reactivity'
-import { ColumnType, isVirtualCol } from 'nocodb-sdk'
-import { inject, onKeyStroke, onMounted, provide } from '#imports'
+import { isVirtualCol } from 'nocodb-sdk'
+import { getCurrentInstance, inject, onKeyStroke, onMounted, provide } from '#imports'
+import useGridViewColumnWidth from '~/composables/useGridViewColumnWidth'
 import {
   ActiveViewInj,
   ChangePageInj,
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ const selected = reactive<{ row?: number | null; col?: number | null }>({})
 const editEnabled = ref(false)
 
 const { loadData, paginationData, formattedData: data, updateRowProperty, changePage } = useViewData(meta, view)
+const { loadGridViewColumns, updateWidth, resizingColWidth, resizingCol } = useGridViewColumnWidth(view)
+onMounted(loadGridViewColumns)
 
 provide(IsFormInj, false)
 provide(IsGridInj, true)
@@ -59,6 +61,14 @@ watch(
   { immediate: true },
 )
 
+const onresize = (colID: string, event: any) => {
+  updateWidth(colID, event.detail)
+}
+const onXcResizing = (cn: string, event: any) => {
+  resizingCol.value = cn
+  resizingColWidth.value = event.detail
+}
+
 defineExpose({
   loadData,
 })
@@ -71,7 +81,15 @@ defineExpose({
         <thead>
           <tr>
             <th>#</th>
-            <th v-for="col in fields" :key="col.title">
+            <th
+              v-for="col in fields"
+              :key="col.title"
+              v-xc-ver-resize
+              :data-col="col.id"
+              @xcresize="onresize(col.id, $event)"
+              @xcresizing="onXcResizing(col.title, $event)"
+              @xcresized="resizingCol = null"
+            >
               <SmartsheetHeaderVirtualCell v-if="isVirtualCol(col)" :column="col" />
               <SmartsheetHeaderCell v-else :column="col" />
             </th>
@@ -94,7 +112,7 @@ defineExpose({
                 // 'text-center': isCentrallyAligned(columnObj),
                 // 'required': isRequired(columnObj, rowObj),
               }"
-              :data-col="columnObj.title"
+              :data-col="columnObj.id"
               @click="selectCell(rowIndex, colIndex)"
               @dblclick="editEnabled = true"
             >
@@ -204,7 +222,6 @@ defineExpose({
     min-height: 31px !important;
     position: relative;
     padding: 0 5px !important;
-    min-width: 200px;
   }
 
   table,
@@ -220,6 +237,7 @@ defineExpose({
   }
 
   td {
+    overflow: hidden;
     text-overflow: ellipsis;
     white-space: nowrap;
   }
@@ -246,4 +264,14 @@ defineExpose({
     opacity: 0.1;
   }
 }
+
+:deep {
+  .resizer:hover,
+  .resizer:active,
+  .resizer:focus {
+    // todo: replace with primary color
+    @apply bg-blue-500/50;
+    cursor: col-resize;
+  }
+}
 </style>
diff --git a/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useGridViewColumnWidth.ts b/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useGridViewColumnWidth.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4116df08b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useGridViewColumnWidth.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import { useStyleTag } from '@vueuse/core'
+import type { ColumnType, GridColumnType, GridType } from 'nocodb-sdk'
+import type { Ref } from 'vue'
+import useMetas from '~/composables/useMetas'
+import useUIPermission from '~/composables/useUIPermission'
+
+// todo: update swagger
+export default (view: Ref<(GridType & { id?: string }) | undefined>) => {
+  const { css, load: loadCss, unload: unloadCss } = useStyleTag('')
+  const { isUIAllowed } = useUIPermission()
+  const { $api } = useNuxtApp()
+  const { metas } = useMetas()
+
+  const gridViewCols = ref<Record<string, GridColumnType>>({})
+  const resizingCol = ref('')
+  const resizingColWidth = ref('200px')
+
+  const columns = computed<ColumnType[]>(() => metas?.value?.[(view?.value as any)?.fk_model_id as string]?.columns)
+
+  watch(
+    // todo : update type in swagger
+    () => [gridViewCols, resizingCol, resizingColWidth],
+    () => {
+      let style = ''
+      for (const c of columns?.value || []) {
+        const val = gridViewCols?.value?.[c?.id as string]?.width || '200px'
+
+        if (val && c.title !== resizingCol?.value) {
+          style += `[data-col="${c.id}"]{min-width:${val};max-width:${val};width: ${val};}`
+        } else {
+          style += `[data-col="${c.id}"]{min-width:${resizingColWidth?.value};max-width:${resizingColWidth?.value};width: ${resizingColWidth?.value};}`
+        }
+      }
+      css.value = style
+    },
+    { deep: true, immediate: true },
+  )
+
+  const loadGridViewColumns = async () => {
+    if (!view.value?.id) return
+    const colsData: GridColumnType[] = await $api.dbView.gridColumnsList(view.value.id)
+    gridViewCols.value = colsData.reduce<Record<string, GridColumnType>>(
+      (o, col) => ({
+        ...o,
+        [col.fk_column_id as string]: col,
+      }),
+      {},
+    )
+    loadCss()
+  }
+
+  const updateWidth = (id: string, width: string) => {
+    if (gridViewCols?.value?.[id]) {
+      gridViewCols.value[id].width = width
+    }
+
+    // sync with server if allowed
+    if (isUIAllowed('gridColUpdate') && gridViewCols.value[id]?.id) {
+      $api.dbView.gridColumnUpdate(gridViewCols.value[id].id as string, {
+        width,
+      })
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { loadGridViewColumns, updateWidth, resizingCol, resizingColWidth, loadCss, unloadCss }
+}
diff --git a/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/index.ts b/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/index.ts
index e8fa8e6b5b..8ac272f97a 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/index.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export default () => {
   const { $state } = useNuxtApp()
   const projectRoles = useState<Record<string, boolean>>(USER_PROJECT_ROLES, () => ({}))
 
-  const isUIAllowed = (permission: keyof typeof rolePermissions[keyof typeof rolePermissions], _skipPreviewAs = false) => {
+  const isUIAllowed = (permission: string, _skipPreviewAs = false) => {
     const user = $state.user
     let userRoles = user?.value?.roles || {}
 
@@ -32,11 +32,7 @@ export default () => {
     // }
 
     return Object.entries(roles).some(([role, hasRole]) => {
-      return (
-        hasRole &&
-        (rolePermissions[role as keyof typeof rolePermissions] === '*' ||
-          rolePermissions[role as keyof typeof rolePermissions]?.[permission])
-      )
+      return hasRole && (rolePermissions[role] === '*' || (rolePermissions[role] as Record<string, boolean>)?.[permission])
     })
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/rolePermissions.ts b/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/rolePermissions.ts
index cd717b3278..8fedbaddd0 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/rolePermissions.ts
+++ b/packages/nc-gui-v2/composables/useUIPermission/rolePermissions.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export default {
+const permissions: Record<string, Record<string, boolean> | '*'> = {
   creator: '*',
   owner: '*',
   guest: {},
@@ -35,3 +35,5 @@ export default {
     projectSettings: true,
   },
 }
+
+export default permissions
diff --git a/packages/nc-gui-v2/plugins/resizeDirective.ts b/packages/nc-gui-v2/plugins/resizeDirective.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d36a1396ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nc-gui-v2/plugins/resizeDirective.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { defineNuxtPlugin } from '#app'
+
+export default defineNuxtPlugin((nuxtApp) => {
+  nuxtApp.vueApp.directive('xc-ver-resize', {
+    created: (el: Element) => {
+      // create resizer element
+      const resizer = document.createElement('div')
+      resizer.className = 'resizer'
+      resizer.style.position = 'absolute'
+      resizer.style.height = '100%'
+      resizer.style.width = '3px'
+      resizer.style.top = '0'
+      resizer.style.right = '-1px'
+      resizer.style.zIndex = '999'
+
+      // add resizer to element
+      el.appendChild(resizer)
+      resizer.addEventListener('mousedown', initDrag, false)
+
+      const instance = getCurrentInstance()
+      const emit =
+        instance?.emit ??
+        ((arg, data) => {
+          const event = new CustomEvent(arg, { detail: data })
+          ;(<HTMLElement>el).dispatchEvent(event)
+        })
+
+      let startX: number
+      let startWidth: number
+
+      // bind event handlers
+      function initDrag(e: MouseEvent) {
+        document.body.style.cursor = 'col-resize'
+        startX = e.clientX
+        startWidth = parseInt(document.defaultView?.getComputedStyle(el)?.width || '0', 10)
+        document.documentElement.addEventListener('mousemove', doDrag, false)
+        document.documentElement.addEventListener('mouseup', stopDrag, false)
+      }
+
+      let width: number | string
+
+      // emit event on dragging
+      function doDrag(e: MouseEvent) {
+        width = `${startWidth + e.clientX - startX}px`
+        emit('xcresizing', width)
+      }
+
+      // remove handlers and emit events on drag end
+      function stopDrag() {
+        resizer.classList.remove('primary')
+        document.body.style.cursor = ''
+        document.documentElement.removeEventListener('mousemove', doDrag, false)
+        document.documentElement.removeEventListener('mouseup', stopDrag, false)
+        emit('xcresize', width)
+        emit('xcresized')
+      }
+    },
+  })
+})