I've always understood that there's no way to have more than 1 column width in the same col on the same page in the same sheet.



However, an IT guy told my wife that there is a way.

Is there?

You cannot do that in Excel. You can, of course merge cells across columns, but that still leaves you with constant-width columns underlying them.

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The constant width columns, once established, is not the problem with merged cells. It's the grid. The top 1/3 of the form (merged cells) wants no grid while the bottom 2/3's wants a grid. To my understanding either the entire sheet sees or does not see the grid.

By 'grid' I assume you mean the cell borders/gridlines. You can turn off the gridline display and have borders around only those cells you want them for.

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How? In Print Page Layout you either check 'gridlines' or not.

I'm thinking that Format/Borders is only for additive cell borders.

Exactly.

But if you don't want that, your only workaround is to use cell merging and/or centring-across-selection to hide the gridlines.

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>>>centring-across-selection to hide the gridlines>>>

Don't get it.

It's a cell format, for centring text across a range of columns without merging them.

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This issue has now been solved. See: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...html#post61628

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