Excel adjust height of merged cells automatically

Question

I have a little problem in excel. I not experienced with excel macros and would be grateful for some help. I am trying to find a macro which ajustes the height of a merged c

Answer 1

There is a much easier way of doing this if you allow the Excel sheet to do some of the heavy lifting for you.

The following example works in the common scenario that you have some cells that comprise several columns but only a single row (i.e. some columns are merged together on a single row). The usual problem is that the row height for wrapped text in the merged cell does not accomodate the height of the wrapped text in some circumstances (e.g. the result of a formula or database lookup gives a large and varying amounts of text)

To solve this, simulate single celled versions of the merged cells by doing the following in some columns that are not visible to the user:

1. In a single cell that is on the same row as the merged cell, place an identical formulae or simply set the formulae equal to a reference to the merged cell.
2. Do this for all merged cells.
3. Make the width of the single cell versions equal to the width of each merged cell(s). You now have a set of single celled versions of the merged cells, on the same rows, but with the same column width.
4. Name these single cells.

5. Write a function that loops through all of these named single cell ranges and calls the following function for each:

   Private Sub AutosizeLongFormInput(rng As Range)
       If Not rng.EntireRow.Hidden = True Then
           rng.EntireRow.AutoFit
       End If
   End Sub