Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, and 2013. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Random Width and Height Changes.
Gary has a workbook set up with twelve worksheets, one for every month. He has framed the information in these worksheets so it just fits on his screen. At some point he opens his workbook to find that the June column widths have expanded so that they don't all fit on his screen. It is only the June columns that expand, but all worksheets will have their row heights expand from 12.75 to 13.50. If Gary resizes everything back so it once more fits his screen, everything is fine for a week or so, and then the resizing happens again.
It is unclear what might be causing this problem, but there are a few things you can check. If the workbook is stored on a network, where it can be accessed by other people, it could be that the change is occurring while someone else has the workbook open. In addition, if the workbook is opened on different machines, it could be that the other machines on which it is opened may be affecting the workbook, provided they have different screen resolutions or different printer fonts installed.
Being unsure as to the cause, it may be that the best solution is to create a macro that runs automatically when the workbook opens. This macro could go through the worksheets and set the column widths and row heights to what you need The following macro will perform these steps:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, and 2013. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Dim wSheet As Worksheet
For Each wSheet In Worksheets
' Change range to reflect columns and rows you need to affect
With wSheet.Range("A1:A15")
.ColumnWidth = 12 ' Change to column width desired
.RowHeight = 13 ' Change to row height desired
End With
Next wSheet
End Sub
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2015-10-18 07:41:31
Pablo Quinteros
It seems to be a bug by Microsoft. This behavior with random changes on the row height is linked to the following settings:
File-Options-Advanced and then go to the group "Cut, Copy, and Paste". Have the 3 boxes checked.
That solved it for me.
For reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/excel/thread/47740b73-9e06-442b-94af-5fbac0956add
2015-06-26 04:33:57
Jonross Jarvis
Hi Alan
Nice little macro there to get round the problem but is there any ideas as to what could be causing this issue in the first place. I much prefer fixing an issue then just working around it. :)
Many Thanks
JonRoss
2015-01-03 10:28:08
Jesse Fink
I often get something similar to this except it's only a few rows (2-3) in the worksheet where the row height is around 409.5. I am not on a network and I'm the only one to use the file.
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