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Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide
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Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide

by Maria Langer
October 2004
Beginner
144 pages
3h 47m
English
Peachpit Press
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Set Column Widths

When you create a worksheet, Excel automatically sets a default width for columns. The width of columns in the Windows version of Excel is 8.43 characters (or 64 pixels). The width of columns in the Mac OS version of Excel is 10 characters (or 1.04 inches).

We've already used the AutoFit feature to increase the width of column A so its text fits in the column. And, if you use the Windows version of Excel, you may have noticed that it widened one or two columns to accommodate the number formatting we applied.

Now we'll make column A a little wider again—remember, we increased the text size and applied bold formatting, which make the text take up more space. We'll also set the width of columns B, C, D, and E to a consistent wider ...

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