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Moreover, the text may look correctly on the screen, but gets cut off when printed.īy trial and error, the following solution for the above problem has been found. But sometimes (and this may happen in any version of Excel 2007 to Excel 2016), some extra space appears below the last line of text as show in the screenshot below. Here's a typical scenario: you set the desired column width, turn Text Wrap on, select the cells of interest, and double click a row separator to autofit the row height. There are times, however, when it fails to auto size columns or rows, especially when the Wrap Text feature is enabled.
In most situations, the Excel AutoFit feature works without a hitch. If you are not sure you can remember the whole sequence, don't worry, as soon as you press the first key combination ( Alt + H) Excel will display the keys to access all options on the ribbon, and once you open the Format menu, you will see the keys to select its items: A selects the AutoFit Row Height option.I selects the AutoFit Column Width option.Alt + H selects the Home tab on the ribbon.Please pay attention that you should not hit all the keys together, rather each key/key combination is pressed and released in turn: To AutoFit row height: Alt + H, then O, and then A.To AutoFit column width: Alt + H, then O, and then I.Press one of the following keyboard shortcuts:.To autofit the entire sheet, press Ctrl + A or click the Select All button.To autofit multiple non-adjacent columns/rows, select one column or row and hold down the Ctrl key while selecting the other columns or rows.Select any cell in the column/row you want to autofit:.Those of you who prefer working with the keyboard most of the time, may like the following way to auto fit in Excel: To AutoFit row height, select the row(s) of interest, go to the Home tab > Cells group, and click Format > AutoFit Row Height.ĪutoFit column width and row height using a keyboard shortcut To AutoFit column width, select one, several or all columns on the sheet, go to the Home tab > Cells group, and click Format > AutoFit Column Width. To autofit the whole sheet, press Ctrl + A or click the Select All button and then, depending on your needs, double click a border of any column or row heading, or both.ĪutoFit columns and rows by using the ribbonĪnother way to make Excel cells expand to fit text automatically is by using the following options on the ribbon:.To autofit multiple columns / multiple rows, select them, and double click a boundary between any two column / row headings in the selection.To autofit one row, hover the mouse pointer over the lower boundary of the row heading, and double click the border.To autofit one column, position the mouse pointer over the right border of the column heading until the double-headed arrow appears, and then double click the border.The easiest way to auto fit in Excel is by double-clicking the column or row border:
AutoFit columns and rows with a double-click Depending on your preferred work style, you can auto fit columns and rows by using the mouse, ribbon or keyboard. What I particularly like about Excel is that it provides more than one way to do most things. When a column width or row height is set to 0, such column/row is not visible on a sheet (hidden). The default height of an Excel row varies from 15 points on a 100% dpi to 14.3 points on a 200% dpi. Rows can have a maximum height of 409 points, with 1 point equal to approximately 1/72 inch or 0.035 cm. The default size of columns in Excel is 8.43. Using a bigger font size or applying additional font characteristics such as italics or bold may significantly reduce the maximum column width.
When resizing cells in Excel, either automatically or manually, please bear in mind the following limits to how big columns and rows can be made.Ĭolumns can have a maximum width of 255, which is the maximum number of characters in the standard font size that a column can hold. However, when exporting or copying data from another source, row heights may not auto adjust, and in these situations the AutoFit Row Height opting comes in helpful. Unlike column width, Microsoft Excel changes the row height automatically based on the height of the text you type in a cell, therefore you won't really need to auto fit rows as often as columns. This option expands the row vertically to hold multi-line or extra-tall text. Excel's AutoFit feature is designed to automatically resize cells in a worksheet to accommodate different sized data without having to manually change the column width and row height.ĪutoFit Column Width - changes the column width to hold the largest value in the column.ĪutoFit Row Height - adjusts the column width to match the largest value in the row.
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