How to Make Columns Wider in Excel. When you add text to a cell in your business spreadsheet, that cell will not widen automatically to accommodate your text unless you change a few settings.

Use Excel’s combination chart feature to layer the total column behind the individual columns, creating a visually distinct representation of cumulative data.

Excel measures the distance between data points in a chart as a percentage. In this example, the gap width is 50%, meaning the space between each column is half the width of the columns themselves.

The simple presentation and colored columns make for easy visual comparisons. Column charts also come in a variety of different forms, including clustered columns, stacked columns and 3-D columns.

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.

A simple trick lets you copy source column's width to a target column in Excel. Refer to the steps in the post to copy column widths in Excel.

The Switch Row or Column feature allows you to swap data over the axis. Learn how to switch Rows and Columns in Microsoft Excel.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool, which is a great way to organize lots of data.

Pie charts are used to show percentages of the whole, and Line charts excel with data trends. The remaining chart designs include Area, Stock, Surface, Combo, Pareto, Histogram, and Sunburst.