Question: I'd like to know which file(CSS?), and within the file which element/variable etc. I can edit to adjust the properties of the New Individual Container/Form. 

I'd like to do 2 things:
1 -Make the Container wider. By default it is 500px, I want to increase it to 60opx.
2 - Adjust the width of the columns to make the 1st one wider so the question is not all jumbled up, to make it a bit more user friendly/readable.

I am hoping someone can tell which file and which element needs to be edited please - I am guessing civicrm.css but the only entry I found that referenced 500px by default didn't do anything when I changed it.

[![Screen shot of container I'd like to adjust](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YpOg2.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YpOg2.png)

Thanks!

Answer: 
As I understand you correctly, you were exploiting a bug, and now its is fixed you search for another solution. One option is to undo the bugfix.

You can do this with the following actions:

* Lookup the issue (CRM-19550).
* Find the pull that contains the patch (<https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/9303>).
* Create a patch file

`wget <https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/9303.patch> > CRM19550.patch`

* Reverse apply the patch on your 4.7.14 installation

`git apply -R CRM19550.patch` in the `[civicrm.root]`.

You have to follow the same procedure with every upgrade.
Perhaps you could do this via a non-Civi webform accessible only to your data entry volunteers (use webform if you are using Drupal as your CMS, or one of the forms plugins that are available for Wordpress) and not collect it in CiviCRM at all. Given that CiviCRM is all about linking data to named contacts and you expressly don't want to do this, then using Civi for it seems to be going against the grain.