Excel AutoFit

AutoFit Row Height

The AutoFit in Excel is done by either dragging the column border to your liking or double-clicking at the border. Let’s take a few examples and learn more about these step by step.

AutoFit Width of a Column

1. To change the width of a column, drag the right border of the column header to your liking.

drag excel column

2. Double click on the right border of a column header that you like to automatically autofit.

autofit excel

3. To autofit multiple columns at a time, first select multiple columns by their column headers.

select multiple columns to autofit

4. Double click the right border at one of the column headers.

autofit multiple columns

AutoFit Height of a Row

To adjust the height of a row, follow similar steps as above. Let’s take an example,

1. To autofit all row heights at the same time, select all rows by their headers.

autofit excel rows

2. Double click on any one of the row boundaries.

autofit multiple rows

We can also autofit row height or column width using the Excel menu.

1. Go to the cells group on the Home tab, click Format.

excel format command on Hobe tab

2. Click “AutoFit Row Height”.

autofit row height

We get the following result.

excel autofit row

Using the techniques described above, we hope that you now can autofit any excel column width or row height the way you want.

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