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How to make cells bigger in Google Sheets

Make cells wider by resizing their column - or taller by resizing the row - to an exact size.

Operations
6 steps 2 min Community template
1

Right-click the column letter

Right-click the letter at the top of the column to widen.

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Right-click the column letter
2

Click Resize column

Choose Resize column.

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Click Resize column
3

Click the width box

Click the box with the width in pixels.

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Click the width box
4

Type 200

Type the new width - here, 200 pixels (the default is 100).

5

Click OK

Click OK.

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Click OK
6

Cells made bigger

The column is now twice as wide. Right-click a row number and choose Resize row to make cells taller.

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Cells made bigger

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