← Excel for Mac AutoFit Row Height for Merged Cells Long time ask by many.create a button or functionality to AutoFit the row height for merged cells for those that use Excel to create forms, summary reports (based on drop-downs and IF statement).
I saw two threads in this forum that asked this question, with no good answer. I am posting this solution for anybody still struggling with this.
The question: How can you prevent a cell's contents from overflowing into the next cell? Of course, you can make the column wider or turn on text wrapping, but you might not want to. Each of those solutions can mess up the layout of your sheet. You may just want to truncate the value. Some people have suggested putting a space in the next cell.
This is unnecessary, a pain in the but, and will mess up any ISBLANK type formulas, among other things. The solution: Select the cells in question and turn on text wrapping (Format>Cells>Alignment>Wrap Text). Now select the row(s) in question and manually set the row height, by right clicking the row number and selecting 'Row Height'. Check the height of an adjacent row for a good value. Your cells will now not spill over either horizontally or vertically. They will simply truncate anything that doesn't fit.
Be careful now, because parts of your data may be hidden. This can cause its own set of problems if one or two digits are neatly hidden away.
Think ahead if other people might be using this sheet, and not be expecting to have some data hidden. Tested in Excel 2002. I have been using Excel (XP) to make a text chart for several months. Some of my text entries are rather lengthy.
The past two weeks these lengthy entries are showing up as pound signs (#########) when I click off the cell. I know the text will fit in the cell, and the problem isn't solved by making the cell bigger or using a little bit less text. I have the cells formatted as 'text' and 'wrap to fit'. I have printed the pages and the printed version also has pound signs. I just want my text to show up!
Hello, As the title goes this is as simple as it gets. The macro worked good when I was using excel 2003 but now that I have 2007 everything works for except the resizing (Picture.Width & Picture. I am trying to do a very simple copy and paste of a simple formula in Excel 2007 and nothing seems to be working.
Excel will not let me copy and paste a formula and will only paste the value into to workbook. For instance, if I make a very simple spreadsheet such as: A1 type in 10, A2 type in =A1 (calculated A2 to be 10) B1 type in 5 And then click the copy on B1, and then click paste special on cell B2, the only options it gives me are text and unicode text and so no matter how I paste, cell b2 will always be populated with a value of 5. I cannot imagine a simpler copy and paste and no matter what I do I can't make this work. All cells are formatted as general. It seems that all copy and pasting of formulas in my excel has been disabled. If I open any spreadsheet on my computer, I can't copy and paste formulas, but do the exact same thing on the exact same spreadsheet on any other computer and it works no problem. I would like to copy a small table from Word into one cell in an Excel worksheet.