Rick:
Thanks. It's trying to work, but not quite there. I've set the two
constants to appropriate numbers, but it's not accurately resetting the
height. It is resizing the cell, but not enough. (The font and font size
in for the cell are Tahoma, 26 pt.)
I'm not getting any error messages; it just isn't expanding the height
enough.
Any suggestions? Does this need to be in it's own module, or can it be in a
module with my other macros for this worksheet?
Thanks again.
Bert

"Rick Rothstein" wrote in message
...
Put all of the following code in a Module (Insert/Module from the VB
editor's menu bar). Change the Const statements in the FitText macro to
the minimum and maximum number of pixels high you want to limit a row to.
After you have done that, go back to the worksheet, select a cell with
text in it and run the macro... it will keep the height within the bounds
you set while changing the row height of the selected cell to accommodate
the text (column width remains fixed).

Private Declare Function GetDC Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function GetDeviceCaps Lib "gdi32" _
(ByVal hDC As Long, _
ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal hDC As Long) As Long

Private Const LOGPIXELSX = 88 'Pixels/inch in X
Private Const POINTS_PER_INCH As Long = 72

Private Function PointsPerPixel() As Double
Dim hDC As Long
Dim lDotsPerInch As Long
hDC = GetDC(0)
lDotsPerInch = GetDeviceCaps(hDC, LOGPIXELSX)
PointsPerPixel = POINTS_PER_INCH / lDotsPerInch
ReleaseDC 0, hDC
End Function

Public Sub FitText()
Dim PPP As Double
Const MinPixelsHigh As Long = 17
Const MaxPixelsHigh As Long = 85
PPP = PointsPerPixel
With ActiveCell
.Rows.AutoFit
If .RowHeight < MinPixelsHigh * PPP Then
.RowHeight = MinPixelsHigh * PPP
ElseIf .RowHeight MaxPixelsHigh * PPP Then
.RowHeight = MaxPixelsHigh * PPP
End If
End With
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Bert" wrote in message
...
For Excel 2003, is there a way to determine the number of lines of text
in a cell (with wordwrap turned on? (Similar to LineCount for a
textbox.)
I'm adding blocks of text to a cell, and--within limits--want to be able
to resize the cell so the whole block will be visible. The text may or
may not contain CR/LF characters, so there could be blank lines I'd like
to have displayed and included in the line count.
I'd prefer not to use autofit, so I can maintain a minimum rowheight, as
well as keeping from going over a maximum rowheight.
Thanks.
Bert