Default column width for text data in a table

1. What is a good column width?
2. How do you set column width in text?
3. What is the default row height and column width?

What is a good column width?

For best legibility, typographic manuals suggest that columns should be wide enough to contain roughly 60 characters per line. One formula suggests multiplying the point size of the font by 2 to reach how wide a column should be in picas — in effect a column width of 24 ems.

How do you set column width in text?

Select the cell and click Home > Format > AutoFit Column Width. See screenshot: Now you can see the cell is resized to fit the text. If you want to resize the row height, you can click Home > Format > AutoFit Row Height.

What is the default row height and column width?

Excel will default the width to 8 characters (it's actually 8.11). You can set the column width from 0 to 255. If you set the width to 0 (zero), Excel hides the column. Rows: The default height is 12.8.