Re: Expanding the width of cells in Excel 2003
- From: "dave-d0619" <dave-d0619@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:24:01 -0500
Hello Alan and Jeffrey:
Thank you both for the prompt reply.
Both of you gave very good instructions.
I have two additional questions!
1. If you want to use two columns of a table
for data, for example, "a3:b10", can you expand just those cells and leave
the rest of the table at their default values?
2. As I said in my email, my table is four columns wide. I want to center
a heading at the top of the table, combining the cells "a1:a4". How do I do
that?
Thanks in anticipation
sincerely:
Dave Durber
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Schwartz" <sidney.schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:00 PM
Subject: RE: Expanding the width of cells in Excel 2003
> Highlight the first cell in the column. Hold down control and press space
> bar. This will highlight the entire column. Alt-o for the format menu.
> Arrow down to column and hit enter. Arrow to width . change the number
in
> there to the one you want. It may take some experimentation as the
numbers
> don't appear to correspond to characters. Alternatively, You can type in
> what you want despite the fact that it is wider than the column. Repeat
the
> steps above but instead of width, choose autofit or the like. In this
way
> the column will expand if you put in a larger entry. Hope this helps.
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of dave-d0619
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:38 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Expanding the width of cells in Excel 2003
>
> Hello everyone:
>
> I am using Excel 2003.
>
> I want to create a spreadsheet with four columns.
>
> The first column will contain text data, while the other three columns
will
> contain numerical data.
>
> My problem is that the default number of characters in a cell is nine, as
> far as I know.
>
> I need to expand the first cell of the first column in the table, so that
it
> can take up to 20 characters of data, for example.
>
> Either I have overlooked or missed something but I cannot seem to be able
to
> achieve what I want.
>
> Any suggestions will be most welcome.
>
> Sincerely:
>
> Dave Durber
>
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