Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365. 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: Adjusting Row Height for a Number of Worksheets.

Adjusting Row Height for a Number of Worksheets

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated June 14, 2022)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365


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Ron knows how to adjust the height of a group of adjacent rows. What he doesn't know (and needs to) is how to make row heights the same across several worksheets in the same workbook.

The trick to this operation is to simply make sure that you select all the worksheets you want to affect. Take a look at the worksheet tabs at the bottom of the program window. You should see one for each worksheet in your workbook. If you want to affect the rows in a series of consecutive worksheets, click the tab for the first worksheet in the series and hold down the Shift key as you click the tab for the last. If the worksheets you want to affect are not consecutive, click the tab for one of the worksheets and then hold down the Ctrl key as you click on the tabs for each of the others.

With all the worksheets you want to affect selected, select the rows within the worksheet you can see. As you adjust the row height for those rows, Excel automatically adjusts the row height for the same rows in each of the other selected worksheets.

When you are done, click on a single worksheet tab. This cancels the selected set of worksheets, and you can continue to work as you desire. (If you don't cancel the selection set, then any changes you make on the screen continue to be made in all the selected worksheets.)

If you need to adjust row heights quite a bit, and your formatting is always the same, then you might benefit from having a macro to affect the sheets. The following macro steps through each selected worksheet and adjusts the height of rows 1 through 5. (You should obviously change the row height in the macro and the row numbers to reflect what you really need.)

Sub row_hts()
    For Each wksht In Worksheets
        Set sht = wksht
        sht.Rows("1:5").RowHeight = 25
    Next
End Sub

You can easily assign the macro to a shortcut key or the Quick Access Toolbar so it can quickly be executed.

Note:

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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (12515) applies to Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Excel here: Adjusting Row Height for a Number of Worksheets.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. ...

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What is 4 + 0?

2022-06-14 10:39:01

Robert

Surendera, the line you ref to is code. It is the start of a 'For' loop and the line 'Next' ends the loop.


2022-06-14 10:36:21

JMJ

@Surendera M. Bhanot
No, there are no comments in this code: it's really code, that makes Excel to select successively every worksheet in the workbook.
This instruction matches the "next" just to lines under.


2022-06-14 04:08:02

Surendera M. Bhanot

Is tis line "For Each wksht In Worksheets" a comment or code??


2019-05-04 08:57:32

Willy Vanhaelen

I don't see the necessity of the line

   Set sht = wksht

This macro works equally well:

Sub row_hts()
For Each wksht In Worksheets
wksht.Rows("1:5").RowHeight = 25
Next
End Sub


2019-05-02 05:31:51

George

Thanks Allen!


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