In a Google Doc spreadsheet I would like to have each row the same height no matter how much text is in each cell.
I have tried "resize row" but no matter how many pixels I put in, the row expands downward to the height of the highest cell with full expanded text.
How can I force the row to stay a certain height and insert scrollbars for all text that is longer than that height?
There is no solution for this one. This is just how HTML works. They are using Table for the cells and by default it's not adding scroll bars if the text doesn't fit. Maybe they will change it in the future, but I don't think that this is in their priority list. And it looks like you can merge cells only horizontally, just in case you wanted to merge vertically to make it look nicer.
overflow:scroll on cells to allow for this.
I've found that it works to add an additional row under the row you're working on, and then merge the two rows together.
Now, if you paste long text in any of the fields in the "double" row, it will only show you a few lines, keeping your sheet clean and manageable. The text in any field expands for you to read if you double-click on that field.
Downsides appear when trying to rearrange or sort rows, for instance, since rows work "by two" with this solution, but maybe that's not a big problem.
Fourth option from the right (Menu bar - once you're in the spreadsheet with the results, etc.). There is an option "WRAP TEXT", select the rows you want and click it.
This sorted it out for me. Once wrap text was on and all rows went to a single line height, I could then also select all rows and resize them all when resizing one, just like in Excel.
** The 'Wrap Text' isn't in any of the dropdown menus, it is a button on the ribbon underneath (same section as horizontal and vertical align).
When cells contain linebreak characters, the 'Overflow', 'Wrap', and 'Clip' formatting options do not have the desired effect of limiting the height of the row.
To work around this, one can create an adjacent column that uses a formula to strip out the linebreak characters, then hide the original column. This approach preserves the ability to properly filter and sort the data.
One such formula is: =arrayformula( iferror( SUBSTITUTE(A:A,char(10), " " ) )). Paste it into row 1 (the header row) of an adjacent column, replacing A:A with the label of the source column.
Hide the original column, then apply [overflow|wrap|clip] formatting to the newly created column.
How about using notes?
I had newline characters in my text that I wanted to show somehow in a single row, too - what I ended up doing was adding the long text into a note. These can be many lines and show when you float - which is about the functionality I was looking for. The only remaining problem really is that the note box is very narrow!
Here's what it looks like now when floating on the cell:
(I realise this doesn't quite fix the OP's problem as stated, but there's no way to achieve what they ask for, currently in Google Sheets.)
The new Google Sheets allow to merge cells vertically. Doing this, makes that the row height is keeped; when the cell is in edit mode, the vertical scrollbar is displayed.
Instructions - To merge cells vertically, and then resize the raw, you need to select the cell + one cell bellow, and than merge:
Do not use CTRL key to select multiple cells to merge, but instead use SHIFT + Down Arrow key (perhaps it's a bug in Google Sheets, since selecting adjacent cells with CTRL, makes merge option unavailable).
Press on the Merge Button (also available under menu: Format > Merge Cells > Merge Vertically).
There is no actual way, wrapping will effect cell width not it's height. Whenever it bothers me I add the text as a comment block. Simply right click on a relevant cell and select "comment" off the context menu; delete the auto generated text and paste yours. This way you'll be able to maintain a fixed row height for all your rows.
I am able to achieve this in two ways:
I have written a script to be run from Tools->Script Editor:
function myFunction() {
var r=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getDataRange();
var rws=r.getNumRows();
var cls=r.getNumColumns();
var i,j,a,find,repl;
find="\n";
repl=" ";
for (i=1;i<=rws;i++) {
for (j=1;j<=cls;j++) {
a=r.getCell(i, j).getValue();
if (r.getCell(i,j).getFormula()) {continue;}
try {
a=a.replace(find,repl);
r.getCell(i, j).setValue(a);
}
catch (err) {continue;}
}
}
}
This is what is looks like collapsed:
This is what it looks like when cell is double clicked and expanded with vertical scroll bar:
Firstly, remove all the filters from your sheet if you have any. Then, just add this script in your script editor and run.
function myFunction() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var maxRows = sheet.getMaxRows();
//Logger.log(maxRows);
for (var i=2; i<=maxRows;)
{
sheet.insertRowAfter(i);
range = 'A'+ i.toString() + ':Z' + (i+1).toString();
sheet.getRange(range).mergeVertically();
//sheet.setRowHeight(i+1, 1);
i += 2;
}
}
Note: if you want to resize your rows too then uncomment the second last line.
I was having this issue today and found that the following workaround worked best for keeping my spreadsheet organized:
This will not provide a scrollbar as requested in the original question, but for me this was the best way to keep the spreadsheet organized and easy to look at.
If they're not offering the feature your only option may be to create a Greasemonkey script, assuming you want it that bad.
Simple. Select all cells in the spreadsheet, then unselect the WRAP TEXT button. See button highlighted in the below screenshot. Every row and column will revert back to identical sizes.
It has to do with the fact that you're copying and pasting from somewhere else. If you're pasting, copy the material to Notepad first and get rid of any unwanted spaces. Then paste into Google Spreadsheet. Then the wrap will work correctly.
Wrap text worked for me. Here is why: After unwrapping the particular row, I noticed that there was a column for which someone had reduced the width drastically. Not even one character would fit properly in that column (but there were couple of lines of text in that column) and that had caused the row to grow in height tremendously. Since the column was so small, none of the text was visible and even after resizing, the row height did not change. Once unwrapped, all it needed was to change the column width and wrap the row again.
Try this link below
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/58183?hl=en
This should help you resize the columns and rows.
