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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated July 3, 2021)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365
Stuart has been building PivotTables for a charity so that they can report on donation patterns over time. The problem he has is that he wants to permanently set the column widths in his PivotTable, but whenever the filter variables for the PivotTable are changed, the column widths reset themselves. Stuart wonders how he can permanently fix all column widths in the PivotTable so they don't change.
This is very easy to do in Excel. After your PivotTable is set up and formatted just the way you want, follow these steps if you are using Excel 2013 or a later version:
Figure 1. The Layout & Format tab of the PivotTable Options dialog box.
If you are using Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 follow these steps instead:
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2022-01-14 04:27:44
Andy
Hi, I have done everything as described and it works. However, the following is still happening and I am trying to find a solution to it:
Pivot Column headers set to "-90" (VBA), WordWrap set to false (VBA), RowHeight adjusted to 200 (VBA): When you use a slicer for the field that you use for the column headers and update the slicer selection, the row height will automatically adjust to fit.
I don't want that. Can that be prevented?
Thx, Andy
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