How to resize all window columns with a single keystroke

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When you open a new Google Sheets spreadsheet, the columns, rows, and individual cells you see will all be a certain size. If you want to see more data in each cell, you’ll need to resize them. Here’s how.

Manually Resizing a Column or Row in Google Sheets

One of the quickest ways to resize a column or row in Google Sheets is to use your mouse or trackpad to resize it manually. This involves dragging the column or row border to a new position, resizing it in the process.

To do this, open a Google Sheets spreadsheet containing your data. Below the formula bar, you’ll see your column headers, initially ranging from A to Z. Likewise, row headers are seen on the left-hand side, initially ranging from 1 to 100.

To resize either a row or column, hover over the column (A, B, etc.) or row (1, 2, etc.) header and move your mouse to the border. Your cursor should turn to an arrowhead, pointing in either direction.

Using your mouse or trackpad, drag the border to a new position, releasing it once the border is in place. A blue line will appear as the border is being moved, giving you a visual indication of the size of the new column or row.

You can also complete this step for multiple columns or rows at once by first selecting them, then using your mouse or trackpad to resize the border on one of the columns or rows.

Google Sheets will treat the selected cells together, resizing them all to the same size.

Resizing Rows or Columns Automatically in Google Sheets

If the cells in your chosen row or column contain too much data, some of the information may be hidden from review (unless you wrap the text first).

To quickly resize these columns or rows to display this data without wrapping the cell text, you can use your mouse to resize it to fit. This will display all hidden text, resizing the column or row to match the size of the largest cell containing the most data.

To do this, open your spreadsheet and hover over the column (starting with A, B, etc.) or row (starting with 1, 2, etc.) header labels. Move your cursor to hover over the border until the cursor changes to an arrowhead.

Once the arrowhead cursor is visible, double-click the border. This will force Google Sheets to resize it automatically to fit the content of the largest cell.

As with the manual method above, you can select multiple rows or columns to resize them at once. This will automatically resize each row or column to fit the largest cell’s data.

Using the Resize Column or Row Tool in Google Sheets

The steps above allow you to resize columns and rows using your mouse or trackpad, but these methods don’t offer a way to resize them to a set size. To do this, you’ll need to use Google Sheets’ column and row resizing tool.

To start, open your spreadsheet and select the header for your row (starting with 1, 2, etc.) or column (starting with A, B, etc.) to select it. You can also do this for multiple rows and columns at once by selecting them first.

With the row or column you wish to resize selected, right-click the header label itself (eg. 1 or A). From the pop-up menu, click the “Resize The Column” or “Resize The Row” option.

In the “Resize” box for your row or column, enter a new size (in pixels) in the box provided to resize it. Alternatively, select the “Fix To Data” option to automatically resize the column or row to fit the largest cell’s data.

Press “OK” to make the change once you’re happy with the new sizing.

Once confirmed, the column or row will resize to match the size you selected. You can repeat this step for additional rows or columns.

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When you’re dealing with an application that displays data in a set of columns, it’s often frustrating to have to resize each column separately—but today we’ve got a great trick for you that resizes all the columns with a single keystroke.

The secret keystroke to use is Ctrl and the Numpad’s + key, and it only works if you have a separate number pad on your PC—but we’ve also found a workaround for that as well. Keep reading.

Here’s How It Works

To better illustrate exactly how this trick works, we’ve put together a short video that shows the keyboard shortcut in action.

Resize All Columns with the Keyboard

In case you can’t load the video, here’s how it works—if you look at this example window, you’ll see how the columns are all bunched up, and you can’t see all of the data in them without resizing them, which can be frustrating.

Simply press the Ctrl key and the Numpad + key together, and you’ll see all of the columns instantly resized to fit the content:

Very useful in many situations!

Resize a Single Column the Quick Way

Sometimes you don’t want to resize all the columns, but you’d like to resize a single column to fit the content. All you need to do in this case is double-click on the separator between the columns, and it will instantly be resized to fit.

This trick works in just about every application that we’ve ever used.

Got a Laptop without a Number Pad? Use AutoHotkey to Remap!

And now we get to the good stuff, for all those of us who use a laptop and don’t have a number key pad—in fact, I had to pull out a dusty keyboard just to test out this trick. The simple solution for all of us is to simply setup an AutoHotkey key mapping to map another keystroke to send Ctrl+NumpadAdd instead.

For instance, I’ve assigned the shortcut key combination Alt + to resize the columns, but of course, you could assign anything to it:

All you’ll need to do is create a new AutoHotkey script, paste in that single line, and then double-click on it for it to work.

Thanks for pointing out the original tip goes to WinSuperSite

In this tutorial, you will learn how to resize multiple rows or columns at once in Excel and Google Sheets.

In Excel, you can resize multiple rows or columns at once by right-clicking or using the Format option in the Ribbon.

Resize Multiple Rows at Once by Right-Clicking

1. To change the height of multiple rows at once, (1) first select multiple rows by clicking on a row number and dragging down to the last row you want to resize.
OR hold CTRL and click on the rows number you want to select (e.g., 1–10).

2. After that, (2) right-click anywhere in the selected area and (3) choose Row Height.

3. In the pop-up screen, set the Row height (for example, 15).

As a result, Rows 1–10 now have the same height: 15.

Resize Multiple Rows at Once Using the Format Option

You can achieve the same thing using the Format option in the Ribbon.

1. First, (1) select multiple rows by clicking on a row number and dragging down to the last row you want to resize.
OR hold CTRL and click on the rows number you want to select (e.g., 1–10).

2. After that, in the Ribbon, (2) go to the Home tab, (3) choose Format in the Cells group, and (4) click on Row Height.

3. In the pop-up screen, set the Row height (for example, 15).

You get the same result as above: Rows 1–10 now have the same height, 15.

Resize Multiple Columns at Once by Right-Clicking

1. To change the width of multiple columns at once, (1) first select multiple columns by clicking on a column heading (letter) and dragging across to the last column you want to resize.
OR hold CTRL and click on the column letters that you want to select (e.g., A–G).

2. After that, (2) right-click anywhere in the selected area, and (3) choose Column Width.

3. In the pop-up screen, set the Column width (for example, 10).

As a result, Columns A–G now have the same width: 10.

Resize Multiple Columns at Once Using the Format Option

You can achieve the same thing using the Format option in the Ribbon.

1. First, (1) select multiple columns by clicking on a column heading (letter) and dragging across to the last column you want to resize.
OR hold CTRL and click on the column letter you want to select (e.g., A–G).

2. After that, in the Ribbon, (2) go to the Home tab, (3) choose Format in the Cells group and (4) click on Column Width.

3. In the pop-up screen, set the Column width (for example, 10).

You get the same result as above: Columns A–G now have the same width (10).

Resize Multiple Rows at Once in Google Sheets

The only way you can resize multiple rows in Google Sheets is by right-clicking. This is almost the same procedure as in Excel.

1. First, (1) select multiple rows by clicking on a row number and dragging down to the last row you want to resize.
OR hold CTRL and click on the rows number you want to select (e.g., 1–10).

2. After that, (2) right-click anywhere in the selected area, and (3) choose Resize rows 1 – 10.

3. In the pop-up screen, select Specify row height and set the row height (for example, 30).

As a result, Rows 1–10 now have the same height: 30.

Resize Multiple Columns at Once in Google Sheets

Resizing columns in Google Sheets works exactly the same as in Excel.

1. First, (1) select multiple columns by clicking on a column heading (letter) and dragging across to the last column you want to resize.
OR hold CTRL and click on the column letters that you want to select (e.g., A–G).

2. After that, (2) right-click anywhere in the selected area and choose (3) Resize columns A – G.

3. In the pop-up screen, select Enter new column width in pixels and then set the column width (for example, 60).

As a result, Columns A–G now have the same width: 60.

When it comes to Windows Explorer, I prefer to see the files listed in detailed mode. The main reason for this is that I get all the information that I need on the screen. I see file names and types, as well as the size, and the last modification date. The other modes, especially the thumbnail display modes, but also list mode, display only file names in the Explorer window. You also find hybrid modes there, tiles for instance displays the name, type and file size, but it does to wasting lots of valuable screen estate.

Windows Explorer’s detailed view mode offers the best overview of all the available view modes. It has one issue though that you will notice after using it for some time. Columns do not get automatically resized based on their item’s length. The file name or type column is usually a lot larger than the modification date column, or the small size column. Even though that is the case, you will see that some file names are not displayed completely in the listing, as the filename column is not providing the room needed to display them fully.

While you can manually adjust the column sizes in the header, it is not really something that you’d want to repeat regularly for folders you are working with. How do you get Windows Explorer to display the file listing that you see on the screenshot above, to look like this?

Easy, you use the shortcut Ctrl+ for that. Just make sure the Windows Explorer window is active before you use the shortcut. You will notice that Windows Explorer will automatically adjust all columns based on the length of the longest value they contain. This usually means a long file name column, and smaller file size and date columns.

This only works in Detail view mode. You can change the view modes in Windows 7 with a click on the small down arrow underneath the search bar.

Closing Words

Adjusting the Windows Explorer detailed file listing with a shortcut is a fine thing. It is still not automatic, but Explorer remembers the layout at least for a while. Have additional Windows Explorer tips to share? Then share them with everyone in the comments.

Put the brakes on your mouse and rearrange your open windows with your keyboard’s arrow keys.

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There were some important shortcuts left off the list I described a couple of months ago. I wanted to be able to use my PC without requiring a mouse or any input device other than the keyboard. Since I can’t remember all the shortcuts I might need, I listed them in a text file I can open in Notepad using just two easy-to-remember keyboard combinations.

Unfortunately, some very useful keyboard shortcuts were omitted from the initial list, including those that let you move and resize windows by pressing Alt-Spacebar-M and Alt-Spacebar-S, respectively. (Note that the Move and Size options are grayed out when the window is maximized. To set it to the “normal” view, press Alt-Spacebar-R.)

Access controls for moving and resizing windows by pressing Alt-Spacebar. Microsoft

The Move command places a four-arrow icon on the screen. Press the arrow keys to reposition the window, and press Enter when it’s in place to return to the normal view. The Size option uses the same icon, but the arrow keys move the top, bottom, left, or right side of the window. Once again, press Enter when you have the desired size to return the focus to your application.

If you want to move the top down and the bottom up, or the right side in and the left side out, you have press Enter and repeat the shortcut. Or use the Move command first to place one side where you want it and then the Size command to resize it.

Cursor control by the numbers
There’s no substitute for a mouse’s ability to move the pointer around the screen in any direction and as fast as your hand can drag it. Your keyboard does offer an alternative way to slide your mouse pointer across the screen. Press the left Shift key, the left Alt key, and the Num Lock key to open the Mouse Keys dialog box. Press Enter to activate the feature. Now move the pointer by pressing the numbers along the outside of your number keypad, and press the 5 key to click. Press the left Alt, left Shift, and Num Lock keys again to turn the feature off.

Activate Windows’ Mouse Keys feature to convert your number pad into a mouse-pointer controller. Microsoft

Tomorrow: Take a closer look at Vista’s Ease of Access Center.

Today, I would like to share with you one very special keyboard shortcut, which will improve your productivity and save a lot of time when you have to deal with columns, grids and tables. Using this shortcut, you will be able to size all columns to fit automatically in Windows File Explorer, Registry Editor, Task Manager or any other 3rd party application which support this tricky feature. Let’s discover it!

Note that you may have to press the ‘+’ key on the numeric keypad of your keyboard. If you have a keyboard without a dedicated numeric keypad as some laptops have, then you may need to use the Fn key along with Ctrl to input the ‘+’ key correctly. The + key on the key with the ‘equals to’ sign (=) does not work for this trick.

This handy trick works in many places and apps in Windows. It is applicable to Windows Explorer in Windows XP as well.

When you run Registry Editor, with Ctrl++ shortcut you will be able to resize the right pane with values quickly. This screenshot below is taken before I pressed the shortcut:

And this one is right after I pressed the shortcut:

Look how neatly all the columns are automatically resized to fit.

Don’t forget, this trick works for most apps with grid/details view.

If you have any questions, see the following video:

A small note about Task Manager. In Windows 8/8.1, there is a new Task Manager app, which allows you to copy process details and has new useful features like startup impact calculation. While in the old, classic Task Manager you were able to resize columns in the same manner on any tab using this Ctrl++ key combination, the new Task Manager only allows you to use this on the Details tab. On other tabs, Microsoft has implemented the ability to show the data as a hierarchical list, i.e. “treeview”. That treeview is a completely different control, so it does not allow you to use this keyboard shortcut. Just for note: if you are not happy with new Task Manager, get the old one back using this tutorial: How to restore the good old Task Manager in Windows 8.

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Resizing columns in Mac’s Finder application is super handy. It’s even more handy when you can do it with a keyboard shortcut.

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I like to use Finder in Column mode (⌘+3), i.e., this view:

One feature of this view is that you can resize all the columns to fit by alt + double clicking on the move handle between each column. There doesn’t appear to be a keyboard shortcut for this operation, though, so I created one using Keyboard Maestro.

Keyboard Maestro can move the mouse around the screen and click with it, which is exactly what I need. There’s a Click at Found Image action, which seemed like it was just what I needed. I took a screenshot of the handle and set up the action to look for it in the topmost window and then discovered that Click at Found Image fails if it finds more than one image. Most of the time, there’s at least two columns visible in my Finder windows, so this was never going to work. I needed a different solution.

The solution was to use the For Each action, which iterates over a collection. One of the choices for the collection is found images. I have set up this KM macro:

The image I am looking for is dragged into the image well and set to be found in the front window, searched from left to right. Once the image is found, a list of actions can be run. In this case, I double click with the alt modifier slightly to the right and down a bit from the top left-hand corner of my screenshot of the handle, which automatically right-sizes all the columns in the window for me. As I only need this done one, I break the loop after double clicking the first handle.

Finally, I assigned it to the keyboard shortcut ⌥⌘R so that I can run it whenever I need to:

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If you are familiar with resizing columns or rows to fit the text in Excel, but do the step to each individual row or column, this is a quick way to resize all columns at the same time.

YouTube Resize all columns to fit text in Excel

Resize all columns at once

All you need to do is:

• highlight the rows or columns (see below column C to F highlighted die to the ### hiding the text)
• Hover your mouse over one of the column separating lines until you see the cursor change as shown below (column E)
• Double click when you have this cursor.

As shown below, you will notice that column C and D resize to autofit the text. Column E stays the same as their is no text to autofit to.

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smhigley commented Jun 30, 2021

Problem:

DetailsList provides drag to resize and reorder columns, but doesn’t provide a way to perform those actions with the keyboard, or with a pointer without drag/drop (so failing pointer gestures and keyboard).

There aren’t currently any well-established patterns for keyboard control of resizable widgets (e.g. textarea doesn’t seem to have any keyboard resizing ability), so we’re starting more or less from scratch. Excel does it through menus and a settings dialog, which can’t translate directly to a standalone widget.

Proposed solution:

After a discussion with @scottaohara, I think the best approach would be the following:

1. Add a custom context menu to column headers with the following menuitems (adding sorting as well, because if we’re adding a context menu, we may as well expose sorting in multiple ways):
   • Sort ascending
   • Sort descending
   • Resize column
   • Reorder column
2. Add a dialog for resizing or reordering the column, where a user can enter a new order index or pixel width.
3. Figure out how we want to handle layout and reflow when users have entered in fixed pixel widths for specific columns, and whether this differs from how we currently handle drag-to-resize.
4. Add a ctrl + arrow keys keyboard shortcut to resize the focused column header.
5. Potentially add a button to open the context menu that is only present when the column header has keyboard focus. Only-on-focus prevents it from being part of the column header’s name at other times, and it would then be possible to access via touch.

Potential problems:

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All I am looking for is a keyboard shortcut to resize a column to fit the largest text entry in that column. Currently I am using the mouse and double-clicking between columns.

Re: Keyboard Shortcut To Resize Columns

isn’t that simple enough?

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Not really, I am using software to pull from databases, and often would like to only resize and view certain columns. I use the keyboard to do almost everything and it would actually save me a lot of time if I didn’t have to use the mouse seeing it is something I do often when pulling form databases into excel. Make sense. A couple seconds times the thousands of times I do it actually would save quite a bit of time

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The following code will autofit the currently selected column.

Create a blank worksheet.
Put this code in a new module in VBA.
Go back into excel.
Click Macros and select that macro.
Click Options and set the shortcut key to something you can remember like Ctrl+Shift+P.
Now save the file as an Excel Add-in.
Now close the file and add it to your loaded add-ins list.

Or. you can simply add the code to each sheet you use. It’s not so long that it would be difficult to do that way.

“The more you know, the less you don’t know.”

How to Resize & Autofit Column Widths in Microsoft Excel (Series Introduction)

Changing the size of column widths is one of the most common day-to-day tasks that you’ll find yourself performing if you design Excel reports or dashboards, or even if you just use Excel for data entry.

If you have struggled to resize all of the columns in an Excel spreadsheet one-by-one, then read on and struggle no more…

In this series of articles, we look at efficient ways to change column width.

Most of the time you’ll want the information in individual cells to be readable, but when data in a cell exceeds the cell width and the cell directly on the right also has data in it, Excel will cut off the cell’s content making it unreadable.

Also if you have a date value in a cell but the column is not wide enough, all you will see is ########.

What happens when column widths are too narrow

It’s OK to resize the columns one at a time by if you click on the column border between columns A and B, then you drag the mouse pointer to the right until all of the data in column A is visible.

Below is an animation to show how to resize columns this way.

How to resize columns one by one using the mouse to drag column borders

As you can see it works and is quite intuitive when you get the hang of dragging column borders, but it is slow and labor-intensive.

There are faster ways to resize columns to fit the contents especially if you have lots of columns to resize, and these are covered in the next articles in this series.

Click on one of the following links to learn different ways to resize and autofit column widths in Excel. Each method will serve you in different situations, so learn them all if you want a collection of tools at your disposal. My personal favorite is to autofit columns using keyboard shortcuts because it’s very fast and usually accurate, but of course it needs the keystrokes to be memorized (see Part 2.)

Adjust the table size, column width, or row height manually or automatically. You can change the size of multiple columns or rows and modify the space between cells. If you need to add a table to your Word document, see Insert a table.

In this article

Change column width

To change the column width, do one of the following:

To use your mouse, rest the cursor on right side of the column boundary you want to move until it becomes a resize cursor , and then drag the boundary until the column is the width you want.

To change the width to a specific measurement, click a cell in the column that you want to resize. On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click in the Table Column Width box, and then specify the options you want.

To make the columns in a table automatically fit the contents, click on your table. On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click AutoFit, and then click AutoFit Contents.

To use the ruler, select a cell in the table, and then drag the markers on the ruler. If you want to see the exact measurement of the column on the ruler, hold down ALT as you drag the marker.

Change row height

To change the row height, do one of the following:

To use your mouse, rest the pointer on the row boundary you want to move until it becomes a resize pointer , and then drag the boundary.

To set the row height to a specific measurement, click a cell in the row that you want to resize. On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click in the Table Row Height box, and then specify the height you want.

To use the ruler, select a cell in the table, and then drag the markers on the ruler. If you want to see the exact measurement of row on the ruler, hold down ALT as you drag the marker.

Make multiple columns or rows the same size

Select the columns or rows you want to make the same size. You can press CTRL while you select to choose several sections that are not next to each other.

On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click Distribute Columns or Distribute Rows .

The entire table

Rest the pointer over the table until the table move handle appears, and then click the table move handle.

Click to the left of the row.

A column or columns

Click the column’s top gridline or border.

Click the left edge of the cell.

Resize a column or table automatically with AutoFit

Automatically adjust your table or columns to fit the size of your content by using the AutoFit button.

Select your table.

On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click AutoFit.

Do one of the following.

To adjust column width automatically, click AutoFit Contents.

To adjust table width automatically, click AutoFit Window.

Note: Row height automatically adjusts to the size of the content until you manually change it.

Turn off AutoFit

If you don’t want AutoFit to automatically adjust your table or column width, you can turn it off.

Select your table.

On the Layout tab, in the Cell Size group, click AutoFit.

Click Fixed Column Width.

Resize an entire table manually

Rest the cursor on the table until the table resize handle appears at the lower-right corner of the table.

Rest the cursor on the table resize handle until it becomes a double-headed arrow .

Drag the table boundary until the table is the size you want.

Add or change the space inside the table

To add space inside your table, you can adjust cell margins or cell spacing.

Cell margins are inside the table cell, like the blue arrow on the top of the graphic. Cell spacing is between the cells, like the orange arrow on the bottom.

Click the table.

On the Layout tab, in the Alignment group, click Cell Margins, and then in the Table Options dialog box

Do one of the following:

Under Default cell margins, enter the measurement you want to adjust the Top, Bottom, Left, or Right margins.

Under Default cell spacing, select the Allow spacing between cells check box, and then enter the measurement you want.

Note: The settings that you choose are available only in the active table. Any new tables that you create will use the original default setting.

By Bryan Clark published 5 September 17

Everyone knows the simplest way to resize a row or column in Microsoft Excel is to simply c lick and drag it to the desired size, letting go of the mouse button only after you’ve reached the desired result. But aside from the numerical help that pops up as tooltips (the inch measurements seen as you’re dragging the bar left, right, up, or down), this really doesn’t offer much precision. Besides, it’s slow, and a manual process that requires doing it for each column or row you want to resize.

There’s a better way.

1. Open Excel and choose a document to load. I’m going to load a Blank workbook, for the sake of this guide.

2. Place the mouse pointer inside a cell and click to select it.

3. Click the Format icon in the ribbon (on the right side) and select Column Width (or Row height if you want to change the height of a Row instead).

4. Enter the desired width, and press OK.

To do this for all columns, instead of a single one, keep reading.

1. Select an area by clicking in one cell, and dragging the highlighted portion to span the entire width and height of the section you’d like to resize.

2. Repeat steps 3 and 4.

As an aside, there are also two cool tools within the Format menu (from step 3) — AutoFit Row Height and AutoFit Column Width. These two will automatically resize the column or row to encompass the size of the characters within it. For dates, it’ll remains small, while names and URLs will grow in size to accommodate.

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Lovakumar commented May 22, 2018

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Describe the issue:

Splitter is not accessible by keyboard in DetailsList control.

Actual behavior:

Splitter is not accessible by keyboard in DetailsList control. We can’t resize columns using key board.

Expected behavior:

Using keyboard we should be to resize columns

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betrue-final-final commented May 22, 2018 •

@aditima, legit issue.
At CSUN, I saw a way that you can implement a resize for keyboard by using slider code their. The line effectively becomes the thumb scroll.

ghost commented Jun 4, 2018

This also came up in the Wipro accessibility test pass on Keros for Web. We look forward to picking up the fix.

ThomasMichon commented Jun 20, 2018

@Lovakumar @peterdur-msft @betrue-final-final How should we make the splitter keyboard-navigable? I had previously made it so, but it was confusing when using the arrow keys to navigate between column headers that focus would get ‘hung up’ on the splitter. If we provide a way to navigate to it, the splitter already has handling for keyboard eventing to move it.

ghost commented Jun 21, 2018

Checked in with teammate and got the following suggestions:

Since this is a grid, it should always support keyboard interaction pattern for a grid, i.e. using arrow keys should allow navigating to the next/previous columns.

There is no specific accessible interaction pattern for this scenario per se but we can try adding keyboard support for moving the splitter using different key combinations:

Option-1: Pressing “enter” key to enable the splitter position movement and use the arrow keys to move its position (Similar to the keyboard interaction in )

Option-2: Using (ctrl + arrow) keys to move the splitter once it receives focus

In both the cases, we should let the user know that additional keyboard interaction option is available

I am working on a largish C# project with a lot of Windows Forms forms that, even though you can resize the form, the elements in the form don’t scale.

How can I make the form elements (such as the datagridview, text area’s, etc.) scale when the user changes the size of the form?

Nearly all the forms subclass from one specific form, so if there’s something I can do in the base class, that’d be great.

2 Answers 2

You should set the Anchor and Dock properties on the controls in the forms.

The Anchor property controls which edges of a control are “bound” or “tied” to the corresponding edges of its form.
For example, if you set Anchor to Bottom , the distance between the control’s bottom edge and the bottom of its parent will not change, so the control will move down as you resize the form.
If you set Anchor to Top | Bottom , the control will resize vertically as you resize the form.

To make a control resize with the form, set the Anchor to all four sides, or set Dock to Fill .

Use the Anchor and Dock properties.

Anchor allows you to pin specific sides of the control to the sides of the parent control.

Dock will bind the whole control to a side of the parent control or it can be set to fill the contents of the parent control.

You usually just need to set the Anchor to the bottom and right of the parent control but gets more difficult when you have controls side by side, then you need to manually resize the controls on the forms OnResize event to get them to scale naturally together.

Autofit Excel Column Widths using the Mouse

Excel provides a neat way to autofit the width of a column using either a mouse double-click or using the built in menus. In this post I will show you how to use the mouse to automatically resize the width of a column so that the contents of the column can be seen in full…

Here is the scenario. You have a table of contacts that lists names, e-mails and birthdays. You have either imported this list from your e-mail program or perhaps just typed the list into Excel. But as it stands there are two problems:

The list of contacts in the screenshot above has two problems
(1) we can’t read all the text, (2) we can’t see any of the dates

• Problem 1: You can’t read the values in columns “Company” and “Email” as they are cut off by the values in the cells on their right.
• Problem 2: You can’t see any of the date values in the birthday column because that column is not wide enough – instead all you see is a row of #########

You could try to resize the columns one at a time by clicking and dragging on the column borders between column headers for all 6 columns, but there is an alternative way.

launchex/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Download-file1-150×150.jpg” />Let me introduce you to a mouse double-click trick that can save you some time. If you want to download the sample .xlsx file with the same final contacts list so you can follow along as you read the post, click on the download icon or click here. The file is very small (12 kb) and also zipped so when you download it you will need to unzip it first.

Demo of mouse double click trick on one selected column

• Move the mouse pointer to the column border between columns D and E
• The white cross will change to a black cross with arrows pointing left and right
• Double click the left mouse button
• Presto – column D has been autofitted!

You can either repeat this process for each of columns C, D, E, F and G, or you can select all of columns C to G and use the double click trick on any of the columns in your selection.

Demo of mouse double click trick on multiple selected columns

If you have followed along, you might wonder why I didn’t double click on column B. What happens if you do? The column width gets adjusted to the longest value, which is in row 3. This looks bad as there is too much empty space in column B.

Using autofit in the first column has created too much blank space next to each name!

Now let’s go back to the built in menus and use the autofit column width feature. The key to using this feature is to first select the cells you want to autofit. Here we don’t want Excel to resize column B to fit the text in row 2 and row 3, because we only want the column to be just wide enough for the first names in our contact list.

Using the autofit feature in Excel 2010 (Home > Cells > Format > Autofit Column Width)

• Select cell B5
• Expand the selection to the current region (using Ctrl + Shift + 8 )
• Select the Home tab on the Excel ribbon
• Find the Cells sub-area
• Click on Format
• Click on Autofit Column Width

Click on one of the following post links to read more on this topic.

For Windows users who prefer to use keyboard instead of mouse, here’s an extensive listing of keyboard accelerators (also known as keyboard shortcuts or hot keys) built-in in Windows operating system for File Explorer. These keyboard accelerators provide a simple keyboard alternative to frequently used command which normally require cumbersome several repeated clicking with mouse on Windows’ graphical interface.

To make life even easier, Windows users can use keyboard shortcut to perform tasks when need it. It is easier and simpler, here the full list:

• Win + E : Open Explorer
• Esc : Cancel file operation
• F2 : Rename
• F2, then Tab : Fast Rename mode
• F3, Ctrl + E or Ctrl + F : Search Box
• F4 : Drop down the address bar
• F5 : Refresh
• F6 : Move focus between various elements – Command bar/Ribbon, Navigation pane and File pane
• F10 : Menu Bar (Windows 7 only)
• F11 : Toggle Fullscreen
• Home : Move selection to beginning
• End : Move selection to end
• Up/Down arrow keys : Move selection up, down
• Left/Right arrow keys : Expand/collapse folder in navigation pane, move selection left/right in file pane
• * : Expand folder and all subfolders in navigation pane (Use with caution)
• Shift + F10 or Menu key : Right click
• Del : Delete
• Shift + Delete : Delete without moving to Recycle Bin
• Enter : Open file
• Alt + Enter : Properties
• Ctrl + X : Cut
• Ctrl + C : Copy
• Ctrl + V : Paste
• Ctrl + W or Alt+F4 : Close window
• Ctrl + Z : Undo
• Ctrl + Y : Redo
• Ctrl + A : Select all
• Ctrl + N : New window
• Ctrl + Shift+N : New folder
• Alt + P : Preview pane toggle
• Alt + Shift +P : Details pane toggle (Windows 8 and later)
• Ctrl + + : Resize all columns to fit in details view. Works in Explorer, Registry editor and many third party apps
• Ctrl + Shift + 1 : Extra Large Icons
• Ctrl + Shift + 2 : Large Icons
• Ctrl + Shift + 3 : Medium Icons
• Ctrl + Shift + 4 : Small Icons
• Ctrl + Shift + 5 : List
• Ctrl + Shift + 6 : Details
• Ctrl + Shift + 7 : Tiles
• Ctrl + Shift + 8 : Content
• Alt + Up : Up one level
• Alt + Left or Backspace : Back
• Alt + Right : Forward
• Alt + D : Move focus to address bar
• Ctrl + Shift + E : Show in navigation pane the parent folder of the folder selected in file pane
• Ctrl + F1 : Show/hide Ribbon

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Let’s say there are a lot of pictures or charts of varying size in a worksheet. And now you need to unify all of them to the same size. How do you deal with it? This article will show the tutorial to resize multiple charts or pictures simultaneously with same size easily.

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Resize all charts at the same time

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You can resize all charts in active worksheet with following steps.

Step 1: Select all charts in active worksheet.

You can select all charts with holding down Ctrl key. The following VB macro can also help you select all charts quickly:

Public Sub SelectAllCharts()
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Select
End Sub

Step 2: Now Drawing Tools is active in Ribbon. Go to the Format tab under the Drawing Tools.

Step 3: In the Size group, enter the shape height and shape width. See the following screenshot:

Then all selected charts in active worksheet are resized at the same time with same size.

Note : This way is valid for resizing all pictures too. If resize all pictures, you can find out the Size group under Format tab of Picture Tools.

Resize all pictures at the same time

There is another way to resize all pictures in active worksheet quickly and conveniently.

Step 1: Select all pictures in active worksheet.

The following VB macro can help you select all pictures in active worksheet quickly.

Public Sub SelectAllPics()
ActiveSheet.Pictures.Select
End Sub

Step 2: Right click the selected picture, and select the Format Object item in the context menu.

Step 3: Format Pictures dialog box pops up, click the Size category in the left bar.

Step 4: Now enter the height and width under the Size section. See the following screenshot:

Step 4: Click OK. Now all selected pictures in active worksheet are resized together and unified to the same size at once.

Many users are interested in getting rid of all the live tiles and Metro style apps from the Windows 10 Start Menu and resize it to a single column. That makes it look like the classic single column Start menu from previous versions of Windows like Windows 95 or Windows 2000. Today, we will see how it can be done.

To resize Windows 10 Start Menu to a single column, you need to do the following.

1. Unpin every tile you have pinned on the right side of Start menu. Just right click each tile and pick the item “Unpin from Start” from its context menu.
2. Once you do this for all tiles, your Start menu will look as follows:

   Now click and drag the right edge of the remaining empty space to the left.

3. You will get something like this:

   Now adjust the height of the Start menu by dragging the top edge towards the bottom.

4. Now, customize the items in the bottom left area of the Start menu as described in the article “How to customize the Start menu in Windows 10”.

The final look of the Start menu will be as follows:

That’s it. You are done. Tell us do you like the single column Start menu or do you prefer to use the hybrid Start menu with apps and tiles?

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5 thoughts on “How to resize Windows 10 Start Menu to single column”

What they need to do is make the program list resizable horizontally in desktop mode. Long titled folders and programs are cut off. At lease give us a option for fly out menus, or a compact view. Also, separate metro apps from win 32 programs. I don’t need the alphabet picker, I don’t need each item sized so big, and I don’t need tiles under my win32 programs.

Many do not want to go backwards after 8.1 fixed the Start Menu (which was basically a full screen customizable task bar)…

The problem is if Microsoft is going to include tiles that can take two Medium spaces (Wide and Large), then IMO it is absolutely moronic to make the columns only 3 Medium tiles wide. That forces you to either have massive spaces between Column groups that force you to scroll more, or Wide/Large Tiles so small you can’t read them or are cut off.

This just seems like common sense. I’m really bummed that an insider said that this is by design (meaning its unlikely they will change it)

Regardless, here’s a LINK where you can vote to have this changed: ()

If you like it this way – fine, I’m not saying get rid of 3 columns, what I’m saying is add to this, by ALLOWING 4 or more.

Also re-allow 3rd party programs (like Oblytile) to make tiles again.

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As I am used to have Chinese and English translation on the bottom right of my desktop when i used Windows 7 for my systems previously. Now that I have upgraded to Windows 10 on my desktop PC, may I inquire how where and what buttons can I press and find to where I can have both English and Chinese translations installed on the bottom right on the taskbar of my desktop PC when it is property installed.

Вы можете изменить ширину выбранных столбцов и высоту выбранных строк в таблице, а также одновременно изменить размер всех строк или столбцов.

Примечание. Ширину или высоту отдельной ячейки изменить нельзя.

Изменение размеров строк или столбцов вручную

Выполните одно из описанных ниже действий.

Изменение размера строки или столбца. Переместите указатель под номер строки или справа от буквы столбца, чтобы появился значок , затем перетяните указатель для изменения размера.

Изменение размера нескольких строк или столбцов. Выберите строки или столбцы, затем переместите указатель под номер самой нижней строки или справа от буквы самого правого столбца, чтобы появился значок , затем перетяните указатель для изменения размера. Размеры изменяются пропорционально.

Изменение размера всех строк или столбцов в таблице. Нажмите в левом верхнем углу таблицы. Затем перетяните синий квадрат у нижнего края таблицы, чтобы изменить размер строк. Перетяните квадрат на правом краю таблицы, чтобы изменить размер столбцов. Перетяните квадрат в правом нижнем углу, чтобы одновременно изменить размер строк и столбцов.

Если при перетягивании строки или столбцы таблицы выравниваются со строками и столбцами другой таблицы, появляются желтые направляющие линии.

Примечание. Если после изменения размера содержимое не умещается в ячейку, можно изменить размер строк или столбцов. Более подробные инструкции приведены в задании ниже.

Точное изменение размера строки или столбца

Нажмите ячейку в строке или столбце, размеры которых нужно изменить.

В боковой панели «Формат» нажмите вкладку «Таблица».

В разделе «Размер столбцов и строк» нажмите стрелки «Ширина» и «Высота», чтобы задать нужный размер.

Размер всей строки или столбца изменится. Если выбрать ячейки в нескольких строках или столбцах, изменится размер всех выбранных строк или столбцов.

Изменение размера строки или столбца по размеру содержимого

Выполните одно из следующих действий.

Переместите указатель справа от номера строки или буквы столбца, нажмите стрелку, затем выберите из открывшегося меню пункт «Подогнать высоту под размер содержимого» или «Подогнать ширину под размер содержимого».

Переместите указатель под номер строки или справа от буквы столбца, чтобы появился значок , затем дважды нажмите кнопку мыши.

Установка одинакового размера строк или столбцов

Чтобы задать одинаковый размер для нескольких строк или столбцов, выберите эти строки или столбцы. Чтобы задать одинаковый размер для всех строк или столбцов, нажмите таблицу, затем нажмите в левом верхнем углу.

Выберите «Таблица» > «Выровнять высоту строк» или «Выровнять ширину столбцов» (меню «Таблица» расположено у верхнего края экрана).

How to resize Excel window

When the Excel Window is in Restored state, you can resize the Excel window. Restored window state makes the Excel window smaller than the Maximized state, allowing you to resize the Excel window.

When the Excel window is at Restored state, move the Windows cursor over to the side of the Excel window, or any corner of the window. The Windows cursor changes its shape to a double-headed arrow, as shown below.

After the shape of the Windows operating system cursor is changed to double-headed arrow (as shown above), click, hold and drag the mouse to resize the Excel window.

Please note below points.

• If you click and drag at the corner of Excel window, both height and width will change proportionally.

• If you click and drag at a side of Excel window, length will change to one side. That means, if you click and drag at top or bottom side of Excel window, the height of the Excel window will change. If you click and drag at left or right side of Excel window, the width of the Excel window will change.

How to move Excel window

To move the Excel window inside Windows Operating System screen, click and drag the cursor over Excel window’s Title bar when the Excel window is at Restored state, as shown below.

If you try to click and drag the cursor over Excel window’s Title bar (or any other application window’s Title bar) when the window is at Maximized state, the Window will change it’s state to Restored state and then changes its position.

Resize form controls precisely using the Property Sheet or by click and drag.

You can resize form controls by clicking and dragging them or by using the Property Sheet to specify an exact value. Here’s how.

Open the Form in Layout View

In the left Navigation Pane, right-click on the form and select Layout View .

This can also be done in Design View if you prefer.

Select all Controls to Resize

Select one control by clicking on it.

To select a block of contiguous controls (i.e. controls that are next to each other or on top of each other), select the first control, then hold the Shift key down and select the last control.

To select non-contiguous controls, use the CTRL key instead.

Open the Property Sheet

Click on Property Sheet in the Ribbon (from the Design tab).

Resize the Controls

Resize the controls by adjusting the values for the Height and Width properties as required.

Click on the Format tab to filter the properties. This can make it easier to find the required properties.

You can also resize the controls by clicking and dragging their edges if you wish.

However, for more control over the sizing, use the Property Sheet.

General (47 shortcuts)

Open Quick Describe window

Cycle through a collection of “child windows” or tabs in a window

Open the Toad documentation

Immediately describe object in popup window

Display right-click menu

Add watch at cursor

D isplay the PL/SQL Debugger Breakpoints window

Display th e PL/SQL Debugger DBMS Output window

Display the PL/SQL Debugger Evaluate/Modify window

Display the PL/SQL Debugger Call Stack w indow

Display the PL/SQL Debugger Watches window

Run (continue execution)

Set or delete a breakpoint on the current line

Display previous statement

Display next statement

Comm e nt block

Execute Explain Plan on the current state m ent

Make code stateme n t

Find sum of the selected fields. You can also include additional calculations, such as the average or count

S t rip code statement

Display pick list drop-down

Verify statement without execution (parse) in the Editor

Pass the SQL or Editor contents to the specified external editor

Display code completion list

Execute current SQL (same as Shift + F9)

Navigate to the previous results panel tab

Navigate to the next results panel tab

Toggle full screen Editor

Execute as script

Toggle between Editor and Results panel

Clear all text, trace into the Editor

Recall previous SQL statement in the Editor

Execute statement in the Editor

G o to line number

Find and r eplace

Find next occurence

Find previous occurence

Un-comment b lock

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How easy to press shortcuts: 80%

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You may often have such a problem that the cell is too small to show all the text in Excel. Now I will tell you how to resize the cell to fit your text in Excel.

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Resize row height or column width to fit text by Format function

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If your data is so long for the cell, you need to resize the column width of the cell.

Select the cell and click Home > Format > AutoFit Column Width. See screenshot:

Now you can see the cell is resized to fit the text.

If you want to resize the row height, you can click Home > Format > AutoFit Row Height.

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Windows 11 may not be exactly revolutionary, but there are some features that are just plain useful, and snap layouts are one of them. Replacing the drag-and-drop snap assist feature of Windows 10, snap layouts let you arrange your apps quickly and neatly on your desktop, making it much simpler to see all and use all at once. (Certainly, it’s a lot better than the constant Alt-Tab switching between apps that many of us are used to.)

Here’s how you set it up:

• Hover your cursor over the maximize icon in the upper right corner of an app or press Win-Z. You’ll see four (or six if you have a large monitor) different grid layouts that you can choose from. Each layout will have several zones in a different configuration.
• Choose a layout and hover over the zone you want your active app to be in. That zone will turn blue; click on it. Your app will then snap into that position.

Choose a layout and then the zone you want your active app to be in.

• If you had other apps open, they may appear as thumbnails in another of the zones. Alt-Tab to each open app, and choose which zone you want that app to be in. You can also simply click on the app if it’s in the zone you want it to be in.

When you choose a zone for one app, the others may appear as thumbnails in another zone. Just Alt-Tab to each and choose a zone.

(Note: Sometimes, while you’re rearranging, one app can overlap the other. If things get confusing, use Alt-Tab to see where each app is or find them in the taskbar.)

And you’re ready to go!

Snap layouts arranges your windows into a neat grid pattern.

Your snap layout will be reflected in the taskbar as well. If you go to the taskbar and hover over the icon for one of the apps in your layout, you will see a thumbnail for both the app and for the layout group it’s part of; you can click on either.

Hover over an apps taskbar icon, and you’ll see both the app alone and its layout grouping.

Need to maximize an app? Just click on the maximize icon. Click on it again, and the app will snap back into its former configuration.

Adjust layout settings

You can adjust the snap layouts by going to “Settings” > “System” > “Multitasking.” You have a variety of options that you can enable or disable. For example, you can choose not to have the snap layout feature appear when you hover over the maximize symbol or when you hover over your app icon in the taskbar. You can arrange for the other windows to automatically resize when you manually resize one. And, of course, you can disable the feature entirely.

Go to the multitasking section in your setup to tweak your snap layout features.

Learn how to use it

When you first start to use snap layouts, it may take a little getting used to, especially when it comes to deciding which app goes where. Once you’re set, however, you may find that snap layouts make it a lot easier to, say, monitor your Twitter or Slack account while working on a document or watching a video. Admittedly, if you have a smaller display, having more than two apps open at the same time could make things a bit crowded, but it’s worth experimenting a bit to see what works for you.

Windows 11 landed earlier this month, bringing some of the most notable improvements and upgrades to the PC operating system since its predecessor Windows 10 was launched in 2015. Now that Windows 11 is here, users can enjoy the new visual redesign of the system, themes and apps, along with all the new features and improvements under the hood. In addition to Windows features, users can also take advantage of keyboard shortcuts introduced with the new operating system.

Whether you want to quickly check your notifications, check the latest news or the weather, take a screenshot, multitask better, or open a chat in Microsoft Teams, here are some of the best shortcuts you can use after downloading the Windows 11 update. So, from Windows Key + N, Windows Key + W to Windows Key + C, check out the top 5 shortcuts.

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Windows Key + N for notification panel

Windows 10 separates your notifications feed from the Action Center, which is now called the quick settings area. If you want to check your notifications, you will need to press Windows Key + N, while pressing Windows Key + A (the old Action Center shortcut) will show you the quick settings option for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and more settings.

Windows Key + W for News and Interests feed

With the News and Interests feed, Windows 11 offers users the ability to check the latest news, the weather and more without opening a browser window. Users can also perform searches using this panel. In order to bring up this panel, users need to press the Windows Key + N to check the latest news.

Windows Key + Z for Snap Layout

With Windows 11, Microsoft is finally updating its window management solution to adapt to larger screens (such as ultrawide monitors). Instead of the usual two windows snapping capability, Windows 11 allow users to snap their windows in a three-column layout. Users can access this by pressing Windows Key and Z to access the Snap layout.

Windows Key + Print Screen for taking screenshots

This one isn’t exactly new, but pressing the Windows Key and Print Screen will automatically capture the entire screen and save a copy of the image on your PC. Once the screen flashes, you will know that the screenshot has been taken, after which you can find the file saved under your Pictures folder in a subfolder called Screenshot.

Windows Key + C for Microsoft Teams chat

While Windows 10 focused on allowing users to make calls and chat using the built-in Skype app, Windows 11 favours the company’s Microsoft Teams app. The service allows anyone with a Microsoft account to quickly start a chat using the Windows + C shortcut, which can come in handy when trying to quickly start a chat directly from the desktop.

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Natively, Windows 10 lets you manage the windows on your desktop without touching the mouse. For that purpose, the Microsoft operating system includes some keyboard shortcuts that will help you resize any application, jump between windows, or minimize them quickly. In this article, we will focus on this last aspect.

To minimize the application you are working with, you can use different methods:

• Windows + ↓: Using this combination, any full-screen window will be minimized in size. If used again, the window is completely minimized. Using the opposite combination, with the upward arrow, the windows are restored.
• Windows + D. This keyboard shortcut sends all windows to the taskbar. One of the advantages of this shortcut is that, if used again after minimizing all the windows, they are restored to their previous state. It is very useful to hide and make applications appear quickly.
• Windows + M. By using these two keys simultaneously, Windows displays the desktop. Therefore, the effect is very similar to the previous combination, but it does not let restoring the applications.

In addition to these shortcuts, you can use other advanced applications to quickly hide open windows on your screen.

For example, Fast Windows Hider lets you make a specific list of applications disappear, or mute those in which a sound is playing. Also, among its functions, you will find the possibility of hiding the task-bar application.

Preview of Fast Windows Hider

All these actions can be associated with a specific keyboard shortcut, similar to the ones we mentioned before, that lets the user activate and deactivate them quickly.

However, in most cases, the Windows 10 window management system will be enough to quickly hide the active application.

All columns can be resized by dragging the top right portion of the column.

Turn column resizing on for the grid by setting resizable=true for each column. To set resizing for each column, set resizable=true on the default column definition.

The snippet below allows all columns except Address to be resized by explicitly setting each column.

The snippet below allows all columns except Address to be resized by setting resizable=true on the default column definition and then resizable=false on the Address column.

Size Columns to Fit

Call the Grid Api api.sizeColumnsToFit() to make the currently visible columns fit the screen. The columns will scale (growing or shrinking) to fit the available width.

sizeColumnsToFit

If you don’t want a particular column to be included in the auto resize, then set the column definition suppressSizeToFit=true . This is helpful if, for example, you want the first column to remain fixed width, but all other columns to fill the width of the table.

The grid calculates new column widths while maintaining the ratio of the column default widths. So for example if Column A has a default size twice as width as Column B, then after calling api.sizeColumnsToFit() Column A will still be twice the size of Column B, assuming no Column min-width or max-width constraints are violated.

Column default widths, rather than current widths, are used while calculating the new widths. This insures the result is deterministic and not depend on any Column resizing the user may have manually done.

For example assuming a grid with three Columns, the algorithm will be as follows:

scale = availableWidth / (w1 + w2 + w3)
w1 = round(w1 * scale)
w2 = round(w2 * scale)
w3 = totalGridWidth – (w1 + w2)

Assuming the grid is 1,200 pixels wide and the Columns have default widths of 40, 120 and 300, then the calculation is as follows:

availableWidth = 1,198 (available width is typically smaller as the grid typically has left and right boarders)
scale = 1198 / (50 + 120 + 300) = 2.548936170212766
col 1 = 50 * 2.54 = 127.44 -> rounded = 127
col 2 = 120 * 2.54 = 305.87 -> rounded = 306
col 3 = 1198 – (127 + 306) = 765 // last col gets the space that’s left, which ensures all space is used, no rounding issues

Just like Excel, each column can be ‘auto resized’ by double clicking the right side of the header rather than dragging it. When you do this, the grid will work out the best width to fit the contents of the cells in the column.

Note the following with regards autosizing columns:

• The grid works out the best width by considering the virtually rendered rows only. For example, if your grid has 10,000 rows, but only 50 rendered due to virtualisation of rows, then only these 50 will be considered for working out the width to display. The rendered rows are all the rows you can see on the screen through the horizontal scroll plus a small buffer (default buffer size is 20).
• Autosizing columns looks at the rendered cells on the screen, and works out the width based on what it sees. It cannot see the columns that are not rendered due to column virtualisation. Thus it is not possible to autosize a column that is not visible on the screen.

Column Virtualisation is the technique the grid uses to render large amounts of columns without degrading performance by only rendering columns that are visible due to the horizontal scroll positions. For example, the grid can have 1,000 columns with only 10 rendered if the horizontal scroll is only showing 10 columns.

To get around this, you can turn off column virtualisation by setting grid property suppressColumnVirtualisation=true . The choice is yours, whether you want column virtualisation working OR auto-size working using off-screen columns.

By default the grid will also resize the column to fit the header. If you do not want the headers to be included in the autosize calculation, set the grid property skipHeaderOnAutoSize=true .

Autosize Column API

Autosizing columns can also be done using the following column API methods. If skipHeader=true , the header won’t be included when calculating the column widths.

Column Groups are never considered when calculating the column widths.

Adjust Row Height and Column Width in Word Tables: Overview

You can adjust row height and column width in Word tables using the mouse. To do this, place your mouse pointer over the border of the column or row to adjust. When you are in the correct place, the mouse pointer turns into a double-line with an intersecting arrow. At that point, you then click and drag to adjust the column width or row height.

Additionally, you can also use the commands in the “Cell Size” button group on the table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon to adjust row height and column width in Word tables. To do this, first select the cells whose width or height you wish to adjust. Then use the “Height:” and “Width:” spinner boxes to set the height and the width of the selected cells.

You can also use the “AutoFit” button to apply automatic adjustments to selected cells. To do this, first select the cells to automatically adjust. Then click the “AutoFit” button in the “Cell Size” button group on the table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon. Then select the method of adjustment to apply: “AutoFit Contents,” which resizes the cells to fit their content; “AutoFit Window,” which stretches the table across the page to fit the window; or “Fixed Column Width,” which lets you set the widths of the columns by hand using the techniques you just learned.

Adjust Row Height and Column Width in Word Tables- Instructions: A picture of a table in Word being adjusted by using the “AutoFit” button in the “Layout” tab of the “Table Tools” contextual tab in the Ribbon of Word.

Another way to adjust row height or column width in Word tables is to equally distribute the spacing allocated to a selection of rows or columns. For example, if you had three adjacent columns of unequal sizes in a table, you could select them and then resize them so each one was the same width over the selected area. To do this, select the columns or rows to evenly distribute. Then click either the “Distribute Rows” or “Distribute Columns” button in the “Cell Size” button group on the table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon to distribute the selected columns or rows equally over the selected area.

Adjust Row Height and Column Width in Word Tables: Instructions

1. To adjust row height and column width in Word tables by using the mouse, place the mouse pointer over the border of the column or row to adjust until the mouse pointer turns into a double line with an intersecting arrow.
2. Then click and drag to adjust the column width or row height.
3. To adjust cell sizes by using the buttons within the table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon, select the cells whose height and width you want to adjust.
4. Then click table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon to display the “Cell Size” button group.
5. Use the “Height:” and “Width:” spinner boxes in the “Cell Size” button group to set the height and width of the selected cells.
6. To apply automatic adjustments to selected cells, select the table cells to adjust.
7. Then click the “AutoFit” button in the “Cell Size” button group on the table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon.
8. Then select an option button for either “AutoFit Contents,” which resizes the cells to fit their content; “AutoFit Window,” which stretches the table across the page to fit the window; or “Fixed Column Width,” which lets you set the widths of the columns by hand, as shown in step #1.
9. To equally distribute the spacing allocated to a selection of rows or columns, select the rows or columns to equally distribute in your table.
10. Then click the table’s “Layout” contextual tab in the Ribbon.
11. Then click either the “Distribute Rows” or “Distribute Columns” button in the “Cell Size” button group, as desired.
12. Your selected rows or columns are then evenly distributed over the selected area.

Adjust Row Height and Column Width in Word Tables: Video Lesson

You can watch the following video lesson, titled “ Adjusting Cell Size ,” to see the different methods you can use to adjust row height and column width in Word tables. This video is from our complete Word tutorial , titled “ Mastering Word Made Easy v.2019 and 365 .”

Resizing rows and columns

You can adjust the height of rows and the width of columns in a table in several ways.

• Move the mouse next to the edge of the cell and when a double-headed arrow appears, click and hold the left mouse button, drag the border to the desired position, and release the mouse button.
• On the horizontal ruler, column dividers are marked by a pair of thin gray lines; the vertical ruler indicates row dividers in the same way. You can resize a row or column by holding the mouse button down on the appropriate divider and dragging it to the desired location.
• Use the keyboard as described below.

Selecting Table > Autofit from the main menu also offers some resizing options:

• The Optimal Column Width or Optimal Row Height options make the columns or rows as narrow as possible while still fitting their contents.
• Columns and rows can be distributed evenly to quickly bring them back to all being the same width or height.

For greater control over the width of each column, use the Columns page of the Table Format dialog box.

Right-click on the table and select Table from the pop-up menu or select Table > Table Properties from the menu bar. On the Table Format dialog box, select the Columns tab.

• Adapt table width: If a table already stretches to the page margins, it cannot stretch any wider and the Adapt table width option is not available. If the table is narrower, increasing the width of a column will increase the width of the whole table. If the table width already extends pasts the margins with the Adapt table width option checked, attempting to change a column width will automatically decrease that column’s size so that the table will now shrink to the page margins while keeping any other column sizes intact.

• Adjust columns proportionally results in all columns changing their widths by the same percentage when one is changed. For example, if you reduce by half the size of a column, all the other columns sizes will be halved.
• Remaining space shows how much further the table can expand before hitting the limit of the margins. This value cannot be edited and will not be negative in the event that the table width is already larger than the space between the left and right margins.
• Under Column width, each individual column can be adjusted. If you have more than six columns, use the arrows at the right and left to view them all.

Rather than start from the Table Format dialog box, it is often more efficient to make rough adjustments to a new table using the mouse, and then fine tune the layout using the Columns page in conjunction with the Table page of the Table Format dialog box.

It is also possible to resize a table using only the keyboard. This is on occasions easier than using the mouse.

1. Place the cursor on the cell whose size you want to change.
2. Press and hold the Alt key while using the arrow keys to change the size.

To adjust the resizing parameters and behavior for keyboard handling, select Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > Table.

Use the Row and Column values in the Move cells section to determine the amount of change produced by a single keystroke while resizing. In the Behavior of rows/columns section you can choose one of the following three strategies when resizing:

• Fixed: select this if you want the resizing to only affect the adjacent cell, and not the entire table. The width of the table does not change when resizing its cells.
• Fixed, proportional: when resizing a cell with this option selected, all the other cells are also resized proportionally, Also in this case the width of the table remains constant.
• Variable: this is the default value. Resizing a cell affects the table size. For example, when you widen a cell, the width of the table increases.

Inserting rows and columns

To insert any number of rows or columns:

1. Place the cursor in the row or column where you want to add new rows or columns and right-click.
2. On the pop-up menu, select Row > Insert or Column > Insert. This will display a dialog box where you can select the number of rows or columns to add, and whether they appear before or after the selected one.
3. Set Amount to the number of rows or columns to insert, and Position to Before or After.
4. Click OK to close the dialog box.

Regardless of how they are inserted, new rows or columns have the same formatting as the row or column where the cursor was when the insert command was issued.

You can also quickly insert a row or a column using only the keyboard:

1. Place the cursor in the row or column next to the row or column you want to insert.
2. Use the Alt+Insert keystroke combination to activate keyboard handling.
3. Use the arrow keys as desired to add a row or column:

• Left to insert a new column to the left of the cell where the cursor is located.

• Right to insert a new column to the right of the cell where the cursor is.

• Down to insert a new row below the cell where the cursor is.

• Up to insert a new row above the cell where the cursor is.

The above keyboard technique can also be used to delete rows or columns by substituting the Alt+Insert keystroke combination in Step 2 with Alt+Delete.

In Windows (since at least XP, probably before), if you use the keyboard to move or resize a Window, you can get very precise locations and sizes – even more than with a mouse – by using the Ctrl key in combination with the arrow keys (after having invoked the Move or Resize functionality from the window menu [Alt+Space]) to move the window borders a pixel at a time.

Is there a way to do the same (or a similar) thing in Ubuntu?

2 Answers 2

Moving/resizing windows by 1px

Assuming you are using Unity, the script below moves or resizes windows by 1 px. The script can be run with 8 different arguments. Depending on the move/re-size options you want to use, you can add the commands to a shortcut key combination. An overview of options and the corresponding commands below:

Exceptions/limitations

There are a few limitations:

• gnome-terminal windows can only be re-sized in steps. As a result increasing/decreasing the window size by 1px does not work with gnome-terminal .
• The window to be moved/re-sized needs to be at least a few px from both the Unity launcher and the top panel.

How to use

First install wmctrl, which is needed to get the window geometry and to move the window.

Create a directory

/bin (so in your home directory)

Make it executable (right-click on the file > Properties > Permissions (tab) , tick “allow execute”)

To test, open a terminal window and run subsequently:

Since the terminal window is the front-most, it should move 1px to the left/right/up/down.

(As mentioned, resizing does not work with gnome-terminal )

If it works correctly, add the commands to shortcut keys;
choose: System Settings > “Keyboard” > “Shortcuts” > “Custom Shortcuts”. Click the “+” and add the commands to four different shortcut key combinations. That might be tricky, since the commands you mentioned are probably occupied. What worked on my system:

• Shift + Ctrl + arrow key left
• Shift + Ctrl + arrow key right
• Shift + Ctrl + arrow key up
• Shift + Ctrl + arrow key down

for the move actions.
For the resize actions you’ll have to try additional combinations.

The script

There is a little difference in the way wmctrl reports the window geometry, and the way wmctrl sets the window geometry. In the first case it calculates from the full screen (resolution), in the second case only from the working area (??). Even then, The script had to “calibrate” 4 px vertically, for which I found no satisfying explanation. The good news is that on different computers, I saw no difference in the deviation.

If in your case the window makes unexpected jumps, leave a comment.

Explanation

The front-most window is looked up with the help of xprop :

Somewhere in the (extensive) output, there is a line like:

from which our window-id can be parsed: 0x4600a8d . Since the format is a bit different from wmctrl , we need to add a zero on the third position: 0x04200085

The window id is used to look up the window and its current geometry data, in the output of wmctrl -lG . Once we have the correct line, the data we have on the window looks like:

where column 2, 3, 4, 5 are subsequently:

• x coordinate of the top left corner of the window
• y coordinate
• width of the window
• height of the window

by manipulating these figures, we can move/resize the window with the command:
(example to move the window to the right by 1 px, changing “322” into “323”)

There are a few complications to deal with, but that is basically how it works.

Many users are interested in getting rid of all the live tiles and Metro style apps from the Windows 10 Start Menu and resize it to a single column. That makes it look like the classic single column Start menu from previous versions of Windows like Windows 95 or Windows 2000. Today, we will see how it can be done.

To resize Windows 10 Start Menu to a single column, you need to do the following.

1. Unpin every tile you have pinned on the right side of Start menu. Just right click each tile and pick the item “Unpin from Start” from its context menu.
2. Once you do this for all tiles, your Start menu will look as follows:
   Now click and drag the right edge of the remaining empty space to the left.
3. You will get something like this:
   Now adjust the height of the Start menu by dragging the top edge towards the bottom.
   
4. Now, customize the items in the bottom left area of the Start menu as described in the article “How to customize the Start menu in Windows 10”.

The final look of the Start menu will be as follows:
That’s it. You are done. Tell us do you like the single column Start menu or do you prefer to use the hybrid Start menu with apps and tiles?

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Browsers, editing programs like Microsoft Excel or Word, your email client – when we’re working with our computers we usually have multiple windows open at once. In most cases, it’s practical to only have one program in full screen view. But if, for example, you’re using an online source and a Word document at the same time, the back and forth between the two windows can be time-consuming and tiresome. If you want to work in multiple programs at the same time, then a practical solution is available in Windows 10: split screen mode. In this mode, the screen is split into two or four sections of the same size. Here, we’ll explain how to split your screen, step by step.

1. Split your screen with your mouse
   1. Step 1: Define active window
   2. Step 2: Select additional windows
2. Split screen: Windows 10 shortcuts
   1. Step 1: Define active window
   2. Step 2: Define additional windows

Split your screen with your mouse

To see multiple windows at once, you can use your mouse to manually adjust the size of windows and align these on your screen. However, this method can be quite time-consuming. Luckily, Windows 10 offers a practical solution that lets you split your screen. Simply follow the two steps below to split your screen into two or four sections:

Step 1: Define active window

First, you need to set up the active window on your screen. To do this, click on the title bar in the top section of the window. Hold down your mouse and pull the window out to the right or left border of your screen. Windows will show you a preview of how the screen would be set up. Let go of the mouse to apply the changes.

Windows will show you a preview of split screen mode on your computer.

Do you work with multiple programs at the same time? You can use Windows 10 to split your screen into four sections. To do this, click on the title bar of one of your windows. Hold down your mouse and pull the window into a corner of your screen. Now, Windows will preview the new screen set-up.

The preview shows you the quarter of your screen where the selected window will be displayed.

Here’s how to use Snap Assist to cleanly display multiple windows in a single bunch.

Since Windows 7, Microsoft has offered a handy feature for re-sizing windows: snap and resize to the left or right side and top or bottom side of the screen or maximize by dragging and dropping. Windows 10 continues that tradition but improves the feature by letting you arrange up to four windows at the same time as well as display and open or close any window from a thumbnail view.

Let’s say you have two windows on the screen, one in the foreground and one in the background, and you want to view them both fully at the same time.

Drag one window by the title bar to the left or right side of the screen until you see a transparent outline or boundary. Release the window, and it snaps to the side you chose, taking up exactly half the screen (below, left). The other window shrinks into a large thumbnail (right).

Snap the second window to the other side by clicking anywhere on it; it will take up the other half of the screen, and the two windows will appear side by side.

If you want to temporarily maximize the window on the left to see it full screen, grab it by the title bar and drag it to the top of the screen until it fills up all of your available screen real estate.

To arrange the same window so both windows are again side by side, drag the window by the title bar and move it back to the left side of the screen until you see the transparent outline. Release the window, and both windows again appear side by side.

Arrange 4 Windows

This maneuver is easier using keyboard shortcuts than using your mouse. Click on the window on left side and press Win Key + Up Arrow Key. The window appears in the upper-left corner.

Click on the window on the right side and press Win Key + Down Arrow Key. The new window appears in the lower-right corner.

Open a third app window and press Win Key + Right Arrow Key. Make sure the window is still selected and then press Win Key + Up Arrow Key. The new window appears in the upper-right corner.

Open a fourth window. Press Win Key + Left Arrow Key and then Win Key + Down Arrow Key. All four windows now appear at the same time in their own corner.

Play With the Size and Position

Click on the window in the upper-right corner. Press Win Key + Down Arrow Key so the window takes up the full right side of the screen. Press Win Key + Down Arrow Key again so the window takes up the lower right portion of the screen.

Press Win Key + Down Arrow Key so the window is minimized and no longer appears on the screen.

Drag and drop the window in the top left corner to the right side until it takes up half of the screen. You’ll see the minimized window appear as a large thumbnail. Click on the X button to close it.

Select the window in the lower-left corner and press the Win Key + Up Arrow Key to display it side by side with the window on the right.

Example

Here, the user can resize both the height and width of a

More “Try it Yourself” examples below.

Definition and Usage

The resize property defines if (and how) an element is resizable by the user.

Note: The resize property does not apply to inline elements or to block elements where overflow=”visible”. So, make sure that overflow is set to “scroll”, “auto”, or “hidden”.

Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

Numbers followed by -moz- specify the first version that worked with a prefix.

CSS Syntax

Property Values

More Examples

Example

Let the user resize only the height of a

Example

Let the user resize only the width of a

Example

In many browsers,

is resizable by default. Here, we have used the resize property to disable the resizability: