Question

How can I make rows a bit longer? If I output the excel everything prints fine, but if the title is a bit long the title is not readable.

How can I fix that?

Answer 1

It’s probably the column width that needs fixing then.

Excel hides any content in a cell that runs wider than the column width it is in. It’s just like CSS overflow property. Usually that is indicated by a small icon on the right hand side of the cell. Double clicking the right edge of the column will autoexpand the column. To have it visible right from the start, you’d have to increase the column width.

Example taken from this newsgroup entry

// Creating a workbook
$workbook = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer();

//Setting column width
$worksheets1->setColumn(0,0,10.00);

Quoting the same entry (fixed spelling):

This example breakdown is as
follows…
setColumn(0,0,10.00)
== the first column to be affected by the width
setColumn(0,0,10.00) ==
the last column to be affected by the
width
setColumn(0,0,10.00) == the
width as a float

The setColumn() needs to be set before
any data is being written to the
spreadsheet. If you only want one
column to be affected by
setColumn() then you set the first and
last column params to the same column
number. If you want to affect more
than one column you can set the last
column to the desired column number,
just remember the column numbering
begins with a 0.

In case that’s not working with the PEAR package, try PHPExcel