![]() ![]() Owing to one of these menaces, you may need to resort to AutoFit which we promise you, isn’t daunting at all. The height or row has been manually adjusted according to other rows and columns, hiding the text. The subsequent cells are non-blank cells and the contents of the cell are hiding behind them. The height or width may have been preset which is why the added text won’t make the cell expand accordingly. There could be several reasons and here are a few of them to give you an idea. This is very useful since the worksheet has preset column width and row height and the text entered in the cells may not be displaying completely. ![]() AutoFit in Excel is a very quickly applicable feature that fits the text of a cell according to the measurement of the row or column (depending on which one is chosen) the text is in. I personally prefer the double-click method as it’s faster and efficient, but in case you’re not double-click person, you can also use the ‘Fit to Data’ optionĪlso, note that all the methods that we have covered in this tutorial also work when you have to resize and autofit rows in Google Sheets.Auto and fit it doesn’t leave much to the imagination. So these are two simple ways you can use to Auto-fit column width in Google Sheets. If the cell(s) with wrap text applied has white space, autofitting will adjust the column width to make sure there is no extra space.In case there is a cell that is overflowing to the next cell, Google Sheets will adjust to make the width wider (note that cell with wrap text will never overflow).So when you have a cell (or some cells) that have wrap text applied: And since there is none of it, the width seems fine to Google Sheet. So there is no spilling of text to the next cell. When you wrap text, the cell on which it has been applied gets the ability to put any extra text on the next line. In such a case, it makes sense to wrap text so that the long string would be converted into multiple lines in the same cell (like a paragraph).īut when you use Wrap Text, you may notice that auto-fit doesn’t work as expected. This works great, but in some cases, you may have a few cells that have a long text string and because of this, all the cells have the large column width. AutoFit Vs Wrap TextĪutofit allows you to make sure the columns are wide enough to accommodate the cell with the longest string in it. Note that in case you change the cells and add/remove more content and need to auto-fit again, you will have to repeat the same steps shown above. This way, no cells would have text that spills over to the next cell. The above steps would instantly change the column width to autofit the cell that has the maximum text in it. In the ‘Resize Column’ dialog box that opens, select the ‘Fit to Data’ option.Right-click on any of the selected columns.Select the column (or columns) that you want to autofit.Suppose have the dataset as shown below and you want to autofit column A.īelow are the steps to adjust and autofit column width in Google Sheets: In case you’re don’t like the double-click method, there is another way to quickly auto-fit column width in Google Sheets. Autofit Column Width with ‘Fit to Data’ Option Once selected, you can autofit columns by double-clicking for any of the columns. In case you want to do this for the entire sheets, you can select all the cells by clicking on the gray box at the top-left of the worksheet. This would adjust the column width of all the selected columns at one go. You would notice that the cursor changes to a double-pointed arrow Place the cursor at the right edge of any of the selected column titles.Select the columns that you want to autofit (these could be contiguous or non-contiguous columns).In case you want to autofit column width for multiple columns at once, follow the below steps: So if you have a cell that has a lot of text, autofit may widen the column a lot. Note that auto-fit adjusts to accommodate the cell with the maximum text. The above steps would instantly auto-fit the column based on the text in the cells. Place the cursor at the right edge of the column title.Select the column that you want to autofit. ![]() Suppose you have the dataset as shown below and you want to autofit column A (which has the company names). The easiest way to autofit the width of the columns in Google Sheets is to select all the columns for which you want to adjust the width and use a simple double click. So let’s get started! Autofit Column Width with Double Click
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