Traditional Ways to Adjust Column Widths (Manually) In this example, Excel's default column width isn't wide enough to show all the text in column A.

Set Column Width Click inside any cell in your worksheet. Press "Ctrl-A." Excel highlights all of the cells on your spreadsheet. Click "Format" in the Cells group of the Home tab.

Row runs horizontally, and column runs vertically. We explain how to set or change the Row height and Column width in Microsoft Excel.

Excel columns are fairly narrow by default, and they won't always accommodate all of your data. With this in mind, Microsoft makes it easy to adjust the width of a column by dragging the line on ...

To make all cells the same size in Excel and Google Sheets, select all the columns/row and then click on the Format tool to change the Column width or Row height.

Enter your choices and press Enter. To change the column width, press Alt+O and then press C (for Column) and then W (for width). Type your values and press Enter. In Excel 2007, press Alt, which puts ...

Copying data from one Excel column to another often means an additional task; you must adjust the target column's width. Fortunately, there's an easy way to do so using Paste Special.

Q. I know that I can adjust a column width in Excel by dragging the right side of the column heading to the desired size. I know, too, that I can automatically adjust the whole column to fit the ...