Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Widening Columns

You probably noticed, as you typed in the numbers, some of the words were just too wide for the default cell width (Investments and Miscellaneous). Let's widen column B to take care of this.
Slowly move the mouse arrow to the right edge of the B cell (between the B and the C). The cursor will turn into an arrow pointing right and left with a small vertical line in the middle (see arrow below). Hold down the left mouse button and move (drag) the line to the right.
As soon as you start to move (drag) the mouse, a dotted vertical line will go down the spreadsheet and it will move as you hold down the left button and drag the mouse to the right. Keep moving your mouse to the right until you are past the widest word - and a bit more (for some space). Release the button. The column is widened. Notice, above the two headed arrow cursor, that as you hold down and drag, it indicates the current width of the column.
Here is another way to widen a column. Point to the B at the top of column B (in the Gray area) and click the left mouse button (The cell should turn dark blue and the column light blue.).
Now, keeping the cursor somewhere in the “blue” area, click the RIGHT Mouse Button. Notice that a menu with Column Width… appears. Click-on Column Width… A new Column Width menu appears. Type in 15 and click-on OK. This is another way to widen a column.



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