Nirmal,

Because the property .Width is read only. The property .ColumnWidth can be
modified.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Nirmal Singh" wrote in
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I need to set the width of a column. I am using the following code

ActiveSheet.Columns("A:A").Width = 57

This should set the width of the column to approximately 0.8 inches
(57/72).

I am getting the following error message:

Run-Time error '1004'

Unable to set the width property of the Range class.

Why not?

Nirmal