How to Convert Excel to Text & Set Column Width. Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas ...

Traditional Ways to Adjust Column Widths (Manually) In this example, Excel's default column width isn't wide enough to show all the text in column A.

Row runs horizontally, and column runs vertically. We explain how to set or change the Row height and Column width in Microsoft Excel.