Hi infofam,

You could:
1. Format the cell to wrap text, then fix the line height so that anything over one line won't show; or
2. insert a space character into the adjacent cell.


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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"infofam" wrote in message ...
I'm working with a spreadsheet and I want to fix the column width more narrow
than my cell contents. If the next column is blank, i do NOT want extra
characters to appear. I don't want them truncated, i just want to restrict
to a set width what I see in that column.

Does anyone know how to do that?