Traditional Ways to Adjust Column Widths (Manually) In this example, Excel's default column width isn't wide enough to show all the text in column A.

Select the columns you want to fix. In this case we’re selecting the header columns — those at the very top of the ...

Row runs horizontally, and column runs vertically. We explain how to set or change the Row height and Column width in Microsoft Excel.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool. Excel gives you two ways to split cells into columns: using delimiters, or using a manual fixed width.

I've got a bunch of 50MB text files (that I have to segment because of Excel's 65k limit), which I want to import into Excel and convert their data in to columns. All of the files have the same ...