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How to display row height or column width in cells?

In some cases, you may want to know the height of each row or the width of each column in your worksheet. Are you still use the Row Height or Column Width to check the row height or column width one cell by one cell? Today, I will introduce some tricks for you to deal with this task quickly.

Display each row height in cells with Define Name

Display each row height in cells with User Defined Function

Display each column width in cells with User Defined Function


arrow blue right bubble Display each row height in cells with Define Name

In Excel, we can create a range name, and then apply its corresponding formula. Please do with following steps:

1. Activate your worksheet which you want to get the row height and column width.

2. Click Formulas > Define Name, see screenshot:

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3. Then in the New Name dialog box, enter your define name into the Name text box, and then type this formula =get.cell(17,a1) into the Refers to box, see screenshot:

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4. And then click OK button to close this dialog, now in a blank cell, please enter this formula =rowheight, see screenshot:

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5. Then drag the fill handle down to the range cells which you want to get the row height, and each row height has been filled into your cells.

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arrow blue right bubble Display each row height in cells with User Defined Function

If you are interesting in code, you can also create a User Defined Function to get the row height of each row.

1. Hold down the Alt + F11 keys in Excel, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window.

VBA code: display each row height in cells

Function RowHeight(MR As Range) As Double
Application.Volatile
RowHeight = MR.RowHeight
End Function

3. Then save and close this code, return to your worksheet, and enter this formula =RowHeight(A1) into any blank cell of first row, then drag the fill handle down to the range cells which you want to display the row height of each row.


arrow blue right bubble Display each column width in cells with User Defined Function

To get the column width of each column, you can also use a User Defined Function.

1. Hold down the Alt + F11 keys in Excel, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window.

VBA code: display each column width in cells

Function ColumnWidth(MR As Range) As Double
 Application.Volatile
 ColumnWidth = MR.ColumnWidth
End Function

3. Then save and close this code, return to your worksheet, and enter this formula =ColumnWidth(A1) into any blank cell of first column, then drag the fill handle right to the range cells which you want to display the column width of each column, and you will get the relative column width in the cell. See screenshots:

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Related article:

How to change the row height / column width alternated in Excel?

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The column user defined function only works for one column. I edited as below to give the total for multiple columns. The same concept could be applied to the Row UDF.

Function ColumnWidth(MR As Range) As Double
Application.Volatile
Dim c As Range
For Each c In MR
ColumnWidth = c.ColumnWidth + ColumnWidth
Next c
End Function
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C'est un bug Excel : une function n'est recalculée que si une "valeur" d'une des cellules d'entrée change. Or, les valeurs ne changent pas, mais juste la largeur ==> donc pas de recalcul. Même pas avec F9...
Un contournement (pas terrible mais évite de revalider chaque cellule à chaque fois) : mettre par exemple "+aujourdhui()*0" à la fin de la formule qui appelle la function, elle se recaculera dès l'appui sur F9.
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These code options only seem to work "at first." When you then adjust the row height, the value does not update (Excel in Office 365). Any resolution to that? I want to display a value or use conditional formatting based on the calculated row height.
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The Range Name is only working for one cell height and not the others
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this works until you use the custom formula in a new tab. it references the original tab you created the formula in
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