Comments on: What is the unit of Excel column width? https://simpleexcelvba.com/what-is-the-unit-of-excel-column-width/ Make your office life easier with simple and fast Excel VBA solutions. Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:57:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: Masaya Saito https://simpleexcelvba.com/what-is-the-unit-of-excel-column-width/#comment-2457 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 05:39:39 +0000 https://simpleexcelvba.com/?p=492#comment-2457 Thank you for writing a nice and helpful article!

Via some experiments in Excel sheet inspired by yours,
I have eventually found that a trial of setting row height or column width accepts only if
it is an integer multiple of 1/96 inches (= 0.75 points), otherwise rounded (more precisely floored) accordingly.

So, you cannot have exact 5mm height/width instead have 4.76mm (if you require 5mm)
or 5.03mm (if you require 5.027..mm or greater).

The following article is also useful to display the results in inches/centimeter:
https://exceltutorialonline.com/set-column-width-in-inches-excel/

Best regards

]]> By: How to get a PDF preview in Excel - Simple Excel VBA https://simpleexcelvba.com/what-is-the-unit-of-excel-column-width/#comment-52 Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:01:03 +0000 https://simpleexcelvba.com/?p=492#comment-52 […] First thing, which I found interesting, fascinating and frustrating at the same time was that column .Width. This property has pixel unit, but is read only. There is also .ColumnWidth, but its unit is equal to the width of one character in the Normal style. I described this problem in my last article. […]

]]>