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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. When it fails, it adds extra space below the text. To make matters worse, what you see is not always what you get, i.e., text that appeared okay on screen gets cut off when it's printed. You also get different sizing depending on whether you are zoomed in/out or at actual size.

Simple test case:

Why is there a one-line gap after the text in cell A1 but not in A2?

(To reproduce: set width of column A to 17.14 (125 pixels), text wrap on, and cell alignment top.)

(I double-checked that I applied Auto Fit Row Height to both rows. Zoom level is 100%.)

Is there any known remedy for this without resorting to manually adjusting the row heights (which is not practical for more than a handful of rows)?

devuxer

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A method I just found (extending the previous post a little):

Select the whole sheet.
Resize a column a little wider (because thewhole sheet is selected, all the columns will get wider)
Double-click a row separator - the row height will be auto-fitted
Double-click a column separator - the column widths will be auto-fitted

Voila!

Nick CarringtonNick Carrington

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Excel's WYSIWYG isn't the best. In your picture, 'cat.' just barely sneaks into the 5th line. If you reduce the zoom percentage to anything less than 100% (99% for example.) then 'cat.' is now wrapped down to the 6th line. I think Excel is trying to auto-fit in a way that will ensure everything is almost always visible no matter your zoom level.

That isn't the only problem you will have with AutoFit. In addition, the way a word-wrapped cell is printed won't always match what you see on screen. Take your example and change the font to Courier while leaving size at 11.

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As you can see, cell A1 appears to be given 1.5 extra lines. Now look at print preview, 'cat.' is completely hidden.

To separate the contents of one Excel cell into separate columns, you can use the 'Convert Text to Columns Wizard'. For example, when you want to separate a list of full names into last and first names. Select the range with full names. Oct 17, 2018 Use Text to Columns (Data tab, Data Tools group) However, it should be CHAR(13) not CHAR(10), that's where I had trouble. Not sure if this is a difference between Windows and Mac, but once I made the change, I was able to get it done. Tip: To reduce all the columns to their smallest possible width, select them, point to Column on the Format menu, and then click AutoFit Selection. Split a column to create a dual-label corner cell You can use an angled border to create a dual-label corner cell such as the one shown here. Feb 01, 2008 After opening.csv file I've got one column of data. Each cell in that column contains data in the following format: name;surname;dateofbirth;emailaddress Now, I would like the data from one cell to be split in four different cells/columns: column a - name, column b - surname etc. I can easily achieve it in excel by using 'text to columns' option. Excel text to columns for paragraph on mac. Apr 06, 2012 Re: Text to Columns, Delimit by Paragraph This can be done, but unfortunately I've run out of time to keep messing with it. There are formulas to find the Nth occurrence of text in a string (search this site for them).

Mac excel search cell for text return value. These functions aren't available in earlier versions.

In my experience, Excel has this problem with certain fonts and font sizes more than others. Courier is worse than Courier New, size 11 is generally worse than 10 or 12. (Why they picked size 11 as the new default, I have no idea.)

mischab1mischab1

I just wrote a small macro for that purpose. I assigned it a shortcut key (Ctrl-Shift-J) and it works like a charm for me.

To make this permanently available, you can easily make a automatically loading add-in:

create a module in a fresh blank workbook and paste the code,
assign it the shortcut key you want,
then Save As, Add-in, to folder %appdata%MicrosoftExcelXLSTART
This way it will be invisibly loaded every time you start Excel.

Patrick HonorezPatrick Honorez

In some cases, the problem of extra space in some rows after invoking 'AutoFit Row Height' may be that a hidden column has wrapped text in those rows.

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There is a kb article on this which 'suggests' (it's unacceptably sparse, in classic Microsoft fashion) that if you ever set a row height, automatic height autofitting is permanently gone for that row of that worksheet. Rows whose height you haven't touched will autofit fine though.

While you can reset column widths with the 'standard width' setting in 2003 (madman-designed 2007: change to 'default width'), but they forgot (again) (and again) to put that in for rows. So the permanency seems unavoidable. That means, if you have a default height of 15, and you create a sheet and set all the heights to 12, you just forfeited automatic autofitting.

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Sometimes there is the nuclear method to fix misbehaving autoproblems.

What I do is copy the text out of each cell and paste the data in Notepad, then delete the row. Then I immediately copy and insert a row that is blank but has the same formatting and good behavior as the row that was deleted. (You must copy and insert the entire row by using left row buttons.)

Once that is done, you have to go back and insert the text from notepad into each cell. (Use F2 or otherwise activate the edit mode of each cell before inserting text.) It is a pain, so it is a last resort, especially for ginormeously wide worksheets.

It is the only solution sometimes, as the problem resides in the program itself.

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PaulPaul

I have not thoroughly tested this but it's been working for me. Essentially it will auto adjust all sheets then go back through and set the column width to the original width, unless it's been extended by the auto adjust. I only had 10 columns and never more than 1000 rows so adjust the code as needed.

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