I think you mis-remember.

Excel 97 nor any other version of Excel has ever allowed one cell to be
wider than the rest of the column.

Column widths and row heights are properties of the column and/or row.

BTW..........1A is not a column or a row.

A1 is a cell reference.

You may use "center across selection" or the not recommended "merge cells".


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:11:02 -0700, SILVERTHORNE
wrote:

Office 1997 allowed stretching the 1A column without expanding the entire
column doesn't seem to work in Office 2003. Please explain