On 12 May 2008 at 9:29, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... > You can do this. How convenient it is depends on exactly how the "64 widened > columns" are distributed within the sheet: > 1. Left click on the letter of the first column to be changed. > 2. Select the columns to be changed: > a) If the columns to be changed are contiguous, hold down the Shift key and > left click on letter of the last column to be changed - all the columns from > first clicked to last clicked inclusive will be selected; > b) if the columns are not contiguous, hold down the Ctrl key and then left > click on each column's letter in turn - again, all of them will be selected. > c) you can select a disconnected set of contiguous regions e.g c-f, h-j, x-z > with judicious use of the Shift and Ctrl keys. > 3. Right click on the letter belonging to one of the selected columns and > choose Column Width. Change it to what you want and click OK. > > You can also deselect a few columns by selecting all of them and applying > the above procedure - left clicking a column's letter is a toggle: it > selects an unselected column and deselects a selected one. To select all the > columns, either click in the field where colum letters and row numbers meet > (as described in the previous e-mail) or by using Edit>Select All or by > hitting Ctrl-A. > > The principle here is that changing the column width (#3) affects all > *selected* columns. > > This is perhaps not 100% what is wanted because the width of *new* columns > will not be what you set at #3 above. But I think it's close ... >
Looks agonizing for a large spreadsheet where row/column sizes may have been changed in 'sparse' groups. And also very prone to error - could one be /sure/ to get the selection correct? It looks as though cells need attributes like "default h/v size" (which is /not/ what the existing tick-box is about!) - the attribute being set by default, and cleared if the size is manually altered. But you could ask the same for any attribute - eg colour: "I've set a few cells here and there in my 100,000 cell spreadsheet to bright red - I'd like to set the rest to green". I can't see a general way of handling this type of problem - and is it reasonable anyway? -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
