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Dave Peterson
 
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I didn't look at the picture, but you can do this:

Tools|customize (again, just so that dialog is visible)
rightclick on the "autofit selection"
You can change the the icon there
You can change it to the default style

There's a few options you may want to play with.

Ann Shaw wrote:

Dave -
Thanks so much for your help. That option worked, although I would prefer
the smaller icon that evidentally has been eliminated from the toolbar
choices. I do still have the icon in Word and have put a screenshot on my
web page so that you can see what it looks like. Here's the page address:
http://www.dogwoodtrainingacademy.com/autofit.htm
Ann

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I've never had autofit on my toolbar and I've never had any trouble with just
double clicking on the row/column headers.

But you could add an icon to your favorite toolbar:

Tools|customize (just to show that dialog)
now click on Format, then column, then ctrl-drag "autofit selection" to your
favorite toolbar.

ctrl-drag copies that icon. If you just drag it, you'll be moving it.



Ann Shaw wrote:

I have a similar problem. I was previously using Excell 2000 and when I
upgraded to 2003 the autofit icon that I had put on my extensively customized
toolbar was no longer there.

I have searched for the icon in tools/customize, but can't find it to drag
on the toolbar. Is it called something different now? I don't want to reset
toolbar because of customization. Am not having any luck with "Double-click
the left column border in the column header to set the column to Best Fit."
I must be clicking in the wrong place, but can't find the correct place.

Any help greatly appreciated.

"Jim Rech" wrote:

Use Peo's approach but select Worksheet Menu Bar (towards the end of the
list) and then do the reset.

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"NancyC" wrote in message
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| Sorry, it was not on the toolbar, it is on the top command bar where "File
| is. I used to be able to hit Format Column and the Autofit option was
there.
| I tried resetting toolbars; but I do not believe this is called a toolbar,
| it is where the commands are like File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, etc.
I
| had accidently dragged it somehwere and it disappeared.
|
| "Peo Sjoblom" wrote:
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| You can reset toolbars under toolscustomizetoolbars and reset
|
|
| Regards,
|
| Peo Sjoblom
|
| "NancyC" wrote:
|
| I accidently dragged and deleted the format width autofit option on my
| toolbar. I want it back. I know you can double click the column top
to get
| the whole column to autofit; but sometimes I just want a cell to be
the
| autofit width for the entire column. How can I get it back?




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