Have you thought about wrapping text on column's cells - then adjust column
to your min characters?

Thanks.

"Paul EWM Aventura" wrote:

How do I set up different colum widths for the same colums in different areas
on the same worksheet? For example: colum 1, rows 1 through 5 are 20
characters, colum 1 rows 6 through 10 are 10 characters . . .