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Formatting Cell Dimensions

Your worksheet can contain many different types of data that occupy different amounts of space. Excel creates all worksheets using a default setting for the width of the columns and the height of the rows. As you start entering your information, you might find that some columns are too narrow, resulting in truncated content. In other columns, you might find that some columns are too wide, resulting in wasted space. Similarly, you might want to increase the height of the rows to increase the readability of the content. Although a row will automatically increase in height if you increase the font size of its content, you might want to increase the height of the row and then change the vertical alignment of the text to ...