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.

A simple trick lets you copy source column's width to a target column in Excel. Refer to the steps in the post to copy column widths in 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.