<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textscalc0105040200xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Optimal Column Width</title> <filename>/text/scalc/01/05040200.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> <lastedited date="2004-08-10T10:16:19">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> </history> </meta> <body> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155628"><bookmark_value>spreadsheets; optimal column widths</bookmark_value> <bookmark_value>columns; optimal widths</bookmark_value> <bookmark_value>optimal column widths</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:SetOptimalColumnWidth" id="bm_id2742569" localize="false"/><!-- HID added by script --> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:SetOptimalColumnWidth" id="bm_id3156326" localize="false"/> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:SetOptimalColumnWidthDirect" id="bm_id6407209" localize="false"/><!-- HID added by script --> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:SetOptimalColumnWidthDirect" id="bm_id3153254" localize="false"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155628" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1">Optimal Column Width</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"><variable id="optitext"><ahelp hid=".uno:SetOptimalColumnWidthDi">Defines the optimal column width for selected columns.</ahelp> </variable> The optimal column width depends on the longest entry within a column. You can choose from the available <link href="text/shared/00/00000003.xhp#metrik" name="measurement units">measurement units</link>.</paragraph> <section id="howtoget"> <embed href="text/scalc/00/00000405.xhp#fospob"/> </section> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sc:MetricField:RID_SCDLG_COL_OPT:ED_VALUE" id="bm_id3153192" localize="false"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150767" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Add</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150449" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4"><ahelp hid="SC:METRICFIELD:RID_SCDLG_COL_OPT:ED_VALUE">Defines additional spacing between the longest entry in a column and the vertical column borders.</ahelp></paragraph> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sc:CheckBox:RID_SCDLG_COL_OPT:BTN_DEFVAL" id="bm_id3155855" localize="false"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Default value</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"><ahelp hid="SC:CHECKBOX:RID_SCDLG_COL_OPT:BTN_DEFVAL">Defines the optimal column width in order to display the entire contents of the column.</ahelp> The additional spacing for the optimal column width is preset to 0.1 in.</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>