how excel fit cells to text
But this can result in too much white space in the rest of the row or column. Rather than fitting the cell to the label size, Excel also lets you resize the contents to fit within the cell. Follow these steps: 1  Select the cell with text that's too long to fully display, and press [Ctrl]1.2  In the Format Cells dialog box, select the Shrink To Fit check box on the Alignment tab, and click OK.icrosoft 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, this tip shows how you can resize the text to fit within the cell. By Mary Richardson | August 23, 2005, 5:30 PM PST. 1  Comments.