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The column width is adjusted to fit the text

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When you double click between columns headings the border between the columns do what?

The column to the left will widen or narrow out to fit the widest entry in the column. The column to the right will move, but its width will not change.


What happens when you double click a right column border?

It uses Autofit to widen the column to the widest value in the column, so that it can be seen without appearing to overlap into a new cell beside it.


To adjust a columns width in a table you would?

select a column and then position your cursor on its border and move it; or to achieve automatical width / height, select and double click on its border


What action sets the width of a column to fit the longest entry in the column in Excel?

The auto-fit column width, which you can do by placing the cursor between the border of the column headings of the column you want to widen and the column to its right. You will get a bar with two arrows showing on it and if you then double click, it will widen the column to the appropriate size to fit the widest entry.


What do you do to automatically resize column headings to match the width of the largest data filled in a column?

Put the mouse pointer between the column header of the column the text is in and the one to the right, until it becomes a double-headed arrow. Then double-click. So if the text was in column C, you'd put the mouse pointer on the border between the C and D for each column and when you saw the pointer change to having two arrows, then double click.


What happen when you click on the column headings?

when you click on the column headings, the entire columns will be highlighted


Perform this action with the mouse on a column boundary to adjust the width to the length of the longest entry?

You double-click, causing an Auto-fit to happen.


What can you click in the Column Width dialog box to show the automatically selects the best width the data in the column?

double click the line in between the columns


A convenient way to AutoFit the content of a column is to select a group of columns and then between two column boundaries?

Double-click.


Best fit in Excel?

Double click on a column, and it will automatically make the column wide enough to fit the longest entry.


What happens when you double click a cell in excel?

If you click right between the heading of two columns, when the mouse pointer changes to a double headed arrow, it will trigger an autofit. This will set the width of the column to be equal to the widest contents of a cell in the column. This may mean the column will get wider or narrower.


what does Best fit means that the width of the column will be increased or decreased by a percentage you specify?

No. It will increase in width to fit the widest text in the column. If you double click between the header of the column you want and the header of the column to its right, when you see the double-headed arrow, it will do it.