To adjust the height of the row to fit all the text in a cell, follow these steps: Select the row. In Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and in earlier versions of Excel, point to Row on the Format menu, and then click AutoFit. In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, click the Home tab, click Format in the Cells group, and then click AutoFit Row Height.

Aug 15, 2013 · Turn on Developer Options: Click the Microsoft Office Button at the top left, and click "Excel Options" (next to Exit Excel). Enable "Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon" and click okay. Click the Developer Tab. Under the Controls section, click Insert, and under the Active-X section, choose the Text Box (it looks like ab|).

Feb 15, 2012 · For every generation of Excel I can remember (including 2010, which I'm using now), Excel's "Auto Size Row" features sometimes fails to actually auto size a row when the cell contains wrapped text. When it works properly, all the text is revealed and there is no additional space below the last line of text.

For Excel 2010, the menu is Home, Cells, Format, AutoFit Column Width. For Excel 2015 (Mac) Preview it is still the same menu as Excel 2 and up to 2003 so Excel 2010 looks an odd outlier Share

I want the text in a cell to flow vertically, that is, flow over into the cell below. When writing in a simple text that is longer than the column width the text flows over automatically into the next column without changing the next column's width. It would be nice if this worked vertically also so that row height would not change. Is this doable?

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Jul 22, 2011 · What you want to do is to wrap the text in the current cell. You can do this manually by pressing Alt + Enter every time you want a new line. Or, you can set this as the default behaviour by pressing the Wrap Text in the Home tab on the Ribbon. Now, whenever you hit enter, it will automatically wrap the text onto a new line rather than a new cell.

Jul 20, 2010 · Great answer. Worth noting that Excel will round your values to its internal grid - and as it doesn't use a square internal grid, it won't necessarily round to the same value. E.g. I have put in 0.8cm for both, and ended up with 0.79cm wide and 0.77cm high. That's Excel 2010, so this may be better in future versions. –

Make a macro to update the column width whenever a cell in that column is changed. Cells change because of user input or because of formula re-calculation. You would use a different type of macro of each type of change. The following is a typical example for manual inputs in column C: Insert the following event macro in the worksheet code area:

May 14, 2010 · In a spreadsheet (Excel, Google Docs, OpenOffice), how do I transpose data from rows to columns, but only non-null cells? 8 In OpenOffice Calc, how do I drag and drop cells to insert rather than replace their destination?