Microsoft Excel’s AutoFit feature is great when you need to resize a cell to display more text than the cell currently allows. But when you can’t change the size of a cell to fit the text, this tip shows how you can resize the text to fit within the cell.
When text is too long to display in a label cell, you can use Microsoft Excel’s AutoFit feature to enlarge the cell enough to fit the contents. But this can result in too much white space in the rest of the row or column.
Rather than fitting the cell to the label size, Excel also lets you resize the contents to fit within the cell. Follow these steps:
1. Select the cell with text that’s too long to fully display, and press [Ctrl]1.
2. In the Format Cells dialog box, select the Shrink To Fit check box on the Alignment tab, and click OK.
[via techrepublic.com; link removed as site no longer functions]