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Adjusting row heights and column widths

Adjusting row heights and column widths

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Adjusting row heights and column widths

- [Instructor] You can easily adjust the width of columns and the height of rows and nearly always you don't need to go into the menu system. Instead, you can use the boundary between columns or rows to make the changes. In this particular worksheet, called rows and columns, in our workbook 04 Formatting, all of our column widths look pretty reasonable. The actual column width, and occasionally we do care, as I point the mouse on the boundary between columns H and I, hold down the left mouse button, width 10 139 pixels. I'll do the same thing on column G, 119 pixels. Column F, 119, so on. Now, we can make these all be the same, we can adjust them at any time. The basic way to change a column width is not by way of commands but simply to point to the right-hand boundary of a column, drag it rightward or leftward. I want column H to be a little narrower, maybe. I point to the boundary between column H and I, hold down the left mouse button, drag a little bit to the left, you see what…

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