In this tutorial, you will learn how to change width of column in Excel using Python. It has all the necessary details to establish the environment to use the library and run the sample code demonstrating how to resize columns in Excel using Python. You will also learn column width adjustment for a range of cells,or auto-fit the width of the columns based on contents in the cell.

Steps to Set Excel Column Width using Python

1. Set the environment to use Aspose.Cells for Python via Java to adjust column width
2. Load the Excel file where the column width is to be changed
3. Access the target worksheet
4. Access the collection of cells and call setColumnWidth() for the target column
5. Save the output Excel file with modified column width

These steps present the process of updating Excel cell width using Python. This process assists in setting the width of a single column where the process is commenced by loading the target Excel file and accessing its first sheet. Each worksheet contains a CellsCollection object that exposes setColumnWidth() method taking the column number and units of pixels to be set in normal view.

Code to Set Column Width in Excel using Python

This code has demonstrated how to resize a column in Excel using Python. You may also use the Range class to set the width of all the columns in a particular range of cells or access the individual column for setting the width using worksheet.getCells().getColumns().get(0).setColumnWidth() method. There is a set of overloaded methods for setting column width in an entire worksheet named autoFitColumn() method.

This article has taught us how to change the width of a column in Excel using Python. If you want to learn the process to add a column, refer to the article on how to add a column in Excel using Python.