![]() ![]() Heaven forbid you hit TAB too many times and you end up shooting past the Format button. You literally have to hit TAB up until the green highlight hits the Format button: You would think that you could do SHIFT+TAB to cycle backwards (start from the end of the ribbon) since the Format button is near the end of the ribbon. As you hit the TAB key, you’ll see the green selection go through every option in the Home tab. How do you get there? From what I know the only way is to hit the TAB key several times. Once the Home tab is open, the goal is to get to the Format button button near the right of the ribbon because that’s where the AutoFit Column Width option is located: Once the “Home” tab is highlighted, you can press SPACE to get into the “Home” tab: ![]() You may have to press F6 a few times until the green selection goes over the “Home” tab. Once you press the F6 key, you’ll see the green highlight show up over the “Home” option on the ribbon. The big caveat is is you don’t have function keys turned on in your Mac OS settings, then you’ll have to press the function key and the F6 key. There is a way to open the ribbon in Mac Excel and that’s with the F6 key. ![]() So what can Mac Excel users do to AutoFit columns? There are a few solutions/workarounds: Method 1: Open the ribbon with F6 and TAB keys (worst method) Rather, it’s a limitation of the Mac OS in general. I don’t think Microsoft just overlooked this feature for Mac Excel users. Mac Excel users have probably come to learn (and hate) that you can’t use keyboard shortcuts in the ribbon. This means you don’t have to drag-and-drop the column anymore like this: Source: Spreadsheeto AutoFit columns in Excel on Mac keyboard shortcut The AutoFit columns shortcut automatically expands the column to fit whatever you’ve selected in the column. This makes learning shortcuts on Windows Excel pretty easy because you can just press letters to open up menus and buttons on the ribbon. ![]() When you press these keys, you’ll see the ribbon light up in Windows Excel: Source: O’Reilly Media ALT, O, C, A actually comes from Excel 2003 and ALT, H, O, I is the more modern shortcut. This is a “sequential” keyboard shortcut where you hit each key one at a time. Well not really until now, but this is the workaround for all you Mac Excel users who want to AutoFit columns like a boss.ĪutoFit columns in Excel for Windows keyboard shortcutĪs a quick refresher, the keyboard shortcut for AutoFitting columns for Excel on Windows is pretty simple: For whatever reason, Microsoft decided not to give a native shortcut for AutoFitting columns in Mac Excel. The problem? The shortcut only applies to Windows Excel users. In concert with the shortcut to select the entire column (CTRL+SPACE), AutoFitting the column width is a super powerful shortcut to show the data that you need. You might also be expanding the row height to fit the size of the text, but I think it’s less common than expanding the column width. When you’re creating some dashboard or report, one of the most common formatting operations you’ll find yourself doing is expanding the column width to fit the text or numbers in a cell. There are several ways to access autofit, including the Excel autofit shortcut, by double-clicking cell boundaries, and through the “Format” menu.Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS This saves a lot of manual adjustment when you’re changing the width or height of multiple cells. In this guide, we’ll be showing you how to autofit cells in Excel to remedy this.Įxcel autofit automatically adjusts the size of your cells to match the longest content in the column or row. You can fit a total of eight full characters, which is enough for many numbers, but not much for text. 6 Extra: How to Color Alternating Rows in Excelīy default, Excel cells are not very wide.5 Extra: How to Move or Swap Columns in Excel.4 How to Use the Excel Autofit Shortcut.3 How to AutoFit Columns and Rows in Excel via the Ribbon.1 How to AutoFit Column Width in Excel via Cell Labels. ![]()
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