{"id":1449,"date":"2021-10-21T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=1449"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:11:01","slug":"solved-how-to-change-the-width-of-a-dropdown-list-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/how-to-change-the-width-of-a-dropdown-list-in-excel\/20568.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved How To Change The Width of a Dropdown List in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 which for presentation reasons has narrow columns.<br \/>\nI want users to be able to make selections using dropdown lists but the names in the dropdown lists are longer than can be displayed in the narrow columns.<br \/>\nThis is not a problem as I am using Text Orientation to rotate the selected items so they display okay.<br \/>\nCurrently only the first few characters of the dropdown lists are visible to the user. I want to make the dropdown lists wider so that the contents can be read by the user without changing the narrow columns.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":125},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}