Column Widths

[Guest]

Is there any way of being able to enter a number into a cell and that number
will represent the width of the column? For example, if I wanted the cell to
be a width of 5, I enter that number into a cell in the column?

I hope I've explained that correctly, if not I'll try again!!

Any help will be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

 

[Nick Hodge]

Only with code in say a worksheet_change event, a little like this (Works on
Column A and a value in A1 (Little error checking contained)


Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
On Error GoTo err:
If Not Application.Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
Columns("A:A").ColumnWidth = Target.Value
Application.EnableEvents = True
End If
err:
Columns("A:A").ColumnWidth= 8.38
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for this ... however I've never used code before - is this
something that I can do easily or is it best left to the experts?

 

[Nick Hodge]

It's up to you, it will work unaltered and you could start on the learning
process or employ someone to do it for you

You can right-click on a sheet tab and select view code, enter the code I
gave you in the resulting window and the code will run on that sheet

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Many thanks Nick, I'll have a go at doing this tomorrow. Thanks ever so much
for all your help, much appreciated.