At its stock settings, Columns UI will look similar to this:

You can customise the main sections of the UI as follows.

By right clicking in the toolbar area, you can add and remove toolbars. Holding SHIFT whilst adding a toolbar will insert a new instance of it. Rightclicking in the band area of the toolbar may bring up additional actions for that toolbar (such as the spectrum analyser).

You can change the appearance of the buttons through the buttons customisation dialog accessed through the buttons context menu.

You can change the colours used in the spectrum analyser from the context menu displayed when you right click on the spectrum analyser.

Similarly to the toolbars, right clicking on a caption allows you to add and remove panels. When adding a panel, holding SHIFT forces a new instance to be added, and CTRL cause the panel to be inserted at the point of right click.

See also Sidebar configuration

You can change the colours used in this panel from the Playlist switcher colours and fonts page.

Customising of the playlist views is done through the Playlist view, Globals and Columns configuration pages. Customising the colour for a column is done via a colour string. This is either the global colour string, or the column colour string, depending on whether you have activated a custom colour string for that column. Adjusting the contents of the column is done via the column's display string. Adjusting the font, and exposed background colour is done via separate settings.

See the aforementioned configuration pages for more details on adjusting these settings.

You can adjust the font and shown panes of the status bar from the Systray & Status bar configuration page. The contents of the main pane of the status bar can be adjusted through the Display/Titleformatting configuration page.

The text of the main window title can be adjusted through the Display/Titleformatting configuration page.

The text of the systray icon's tooltip can be adjusted through the Display/Titleformatting configuration page. The icon can be changed through the Systray & Status bar configuration page.