

How to change the width of a column in Excel using the mouse If you want the information in all cells to be readable, you can either wrap text or adjust column width. If the column to the right contains data, then a text string is cut off at the cell border and a numerical value (number or date) is replaced with a sequence of hash symbols (#) like shown in the screenshot below: If the value in a certain cell is too large to fit in the column, it extends over the column's border and overlaps the next cell.

To view the current width of a column, click on the right boundary of the column header, and Excel will display the width for you:Ĭolumns in Excel do not resize automatically as you input data in them. If a column's width is set to zero (0), the column is hidden. On a new worksheet, the default width of all columns is 8.43 characters, which corresponds to 64 pixels. On an Excel spreadsheet, you can set a column width of 0 to 255, with one unit equal to the width of one character that can be displayed in a cell formatted with the standard font.

