Additionally, although it is quite possible to detect when one of the data-val. cells has been selected, perform a task, then when another cell's been selected, reverse the original task (mburkett -- you'll need to track some data between events to do that), your code then has to figure out how wide to make the cell. There is not exactly accuarate way to calculate how wide a cell needs to be based on text not in the cell. The only accurate and reliable way is to use autofit on the column after placing the text in the cell. You could have your code do that -- taking care to avoid unwanted side effects (like triggering another event that takes an unwanted action) to measure the text. Actually, if you really wanted to, you could do place the text in some OTHER cell and measure it that way. You might guess that the longest string of text on the DV list will take up the most space, but not necessarily. So to be sure, you'd have to measure all the values to find the width you want. This might take a noticable amount of time, so you could calculate and store in the workbook the corresponding widths along with the DV values, which you might calculate in a Change event whenever those DV values are changed, instead of every time a DV cell is selected.
It's not a short simple answer. Sorry I haven't coded a solution, but perhaps my analysis is helpful. I can go into greater detail if you have questions (mburkett), but probably won't have time to work on it. Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Schreiner Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 12:18 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Change Column Size >From his description, I think he's looking for something like a SelectionChange Event. Where, when he selects the cell with the pull-down, it automatically changes the width of the column to ##. Then, when a different cell is selected, the column returns to it's original width. Paul ----------------------------------------- "Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can." - John Wesley ----------------------------------------- _____ From: NOORAIN ANSARI <noorain.ans...@gmail.com> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, August 31, 2012 2:33:54 PM Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Change Column Size Without VBa Code you can use.. Alt+O+C+A On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:44 PM, NOORAIN ANSARI <noorain.ans...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Mburket, You can use.. Sub column_fit() Cells.Columns.AutoFit End Sub On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:41 PM, mburkett <michaelburk...@gmail.com> wrote: I am using a list with data validation in cells c64:c74. The choices are very long text strings. 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