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Resizing Column Widths

Whenever the cursor is moved to a point between two column headings or rows, it changes appearance to a horizontal or vertical resizing cursor to indicate that the width of a column or height of a row can be changed.

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Resizing an individual column

  1. Move the cursor to the right of the column you want to resize until it changes to a resizing cursor.

  2. To expand the column to accommodate the contents, double-click with the mouse. You can also click and drag the mouse right to make the column wider than the contents.

Resizing selected columns

Selected columns can be in a single block or non-contiguous.

  1. Hold down the Ctrl key while clicking the column header of each column you want to select.

  2. Move the cursor to the right of any selected column until it changes to a resizing cursor.

  3. To expand all selected columns to accommodate their cell contents, double-click with the mouse.

Resizing all columns

This changes the widths of all columns to the minimum required to show each cell’s contents without truncation.

  1. From the menu select Spread | Column | Set Default Widths.

Updated on February 28, 2019

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