Hi All,
I am working on a C# application that requires me to enter multi-line
data into an Excel 2003 spreadsheet. I am wondering how to
automatically resize the row height of merged cells to accomodate all
of this text. I attempted to use a dummy cell with the same column
width as the merged cells to discern the row height, but this is not
working.

Below is a snippet of the code that I am using...

// dummy cell location
string cell = "AA19";
string tempRowHeight = ""; // object for storing original
dummy cell height
// Create a non-merged dummy cell so we can determine the
necessary height of the row
Excel.Range dummyCell =
(Excel.Range)worksheet.get_Range(cell, cell);
// Get the original row height so that we can reset the
dummy cell when we are finished
tempRowHeight = dummyCell.RowHeight.ToString();
// Set the dummyCell column width to the width of the
merged range
dummyCell.ColumnWidth = columnWidth;

dummyCell.WrapText = true; // force the cell to resize

dummyCell.Value2 = locText;

// get the rowHeight of the resized cell
string rowHeight = dummyCell.RowHeight.ToString();

// remove the text from the dummy cell before continuing
dummyCell.Value2 = "";
dummyCell.RowHeight = tempRowHeight;
// release the com objects

System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleas eComObject(dummyCell);
dummyCell = null;

return rowHeight

I then use the calculated rowHeight to set the rowHeight of the merged
area. Has anyone else attempted a solution like this with any success?


Any help would be much appreciated!

Katherine