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Christina has attended:
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Expanding columns

what is the fastest way to expand a column?

RE: expanding columns

Hi Christina,

Thanks for your question and welcome to the forum.

The quickest way to expand a column is to place your mouse on the line between the column you want to expand and the column to the right until your mouse pointer becomes a black bar with two arrows (one pointing left, one pointing right) then double left mouse click. This will resize your column to the largest entry.

Thanks and kind regards

Maggie


 

Excel tip:

Ctrl+d's double life

Suppose I have a formula in B1 that I wish to copy into B2:B10. I can select B1:B10 then press Ctrl+d to copy the formula down the selected range. Users generally ignore this shortcut in favour of double-clicking on the fill handle to copy down, but Ctrl+d is useful sometimes particularly when there is no data in surrounding columns to guide to how far the double-click method should copy formulae.

Ctrl+d has another use though. When I use the drawing toolbar to draw objects such as Text Boxes, Rectangles and Ovals onto a worksheet, Ctrl+d makes an instant duplicate of selected shapes. For example, I need five Text Boxes the same size. I draw one Text box and adjust it to the size I want, select it, then press Ctrl+d four times to get four identical copies.

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