I am working on a template which by nature will require varying amounts of
text to be inputted. I can get the row to automatically expand as long as the
cell is singular and not merged with other cells - but in order for the
template design to work I have to merge cells together from the same row. I
have tried formating the cells to shrink to fir, wrap text etc and I have
tried autofit too but this has not worked. Any suggestions?

You have to adjust that manually (or via a macro).

Jim Rech wrote a macro called AutoFitMergedCellRowHeight that you may like:
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...%40tkmsftngp05

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

Michelle Bance wrote:

I am working on a template which by nature will require varying amounts of
text to be inputted. I can get the row to automatically expand as long as the
cell is singular and not merged with other cells - but in order for the
template design to work I have to merge cells together from the same row. I
have tried formating the cells to shrink to fir, wrap text etc and I have
tried autofit too but this has not worked. Any suggestions?

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Dave Peterson