Oracle Report database column width

Hello,

I am having a strange issue.  When I click on the query in my report and add a space and click ok, it changes the width of some columns.  2 of the columns get null value for the field width and another one reduces to 2.  Originally the columns have a width of 240, 240 and 182 based on the view definition.  How can I fix that?  I need to modify the query to make some changes, but if I am unable to keep the widths of columns untouched, it is going to be tricky.  The view definition has columns