How to make Excel cells expand to fit Text There are a few ways that you `can make your Excel cells fit text. You will most likely use a mixture of these methods depending on your project.

Microsoft Excel’s AutoFit feature is great when you need to resize a cell to display more text than the cell currently allows. But when you can’t change the size of a cell to fit the text ...

Traditional Ways to Adjust Column Widths (Manually) In this example, Excel's default column width isn't wide enough to show all the text in column A.

If you want the entire Long-term debt account listed on row 7, simply select cells A7:A8. Go to Home on the Ribbon, go to the group Editing, click the dropdown arrow next to Fill, and choose Justify.

Adding a text to a cell in Excel using Formula requires use of ampersand operator, CONCAT function, or the LEFT, RIGHT, and LEN functions.

Simply press CTRL and the numeric pad's + key—the non-Numpad + key won't work—to automatically resize all columns to fit the text contents.