how to resize excel spreadsheet using trackpad

How do you "drag" the lower right corner on an excel spreadsheet to resize the page using the trackpad.

Nothing seems to work. Help.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 29, 2012 5:05 PM

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Feb 29, 2012 6:03 PM in response to gbd3

Look, there are hundreds of questions here. There are only a few people who give good answers to questions, and a few who give terrible ones. I try to be one of the good ones, but I make mistakes. Reading 100-200 questions a day, I have no patience at all for people who are too lazy to google the question, go to the the software developers home page, or just troll away around here.


Your question, at first, sounded like you were having a problem with Excel, which is not something that should be answered here. However, once I figured out you were having some issues with Multi-Touch, I knew exactly which link to use.


Multitouch is cooler than cool, once you get used to it. I actually use the Magic Trackpad, which is larger, and I think allows more gestures. As they say, "once you use a Mac, you'll never go back." OK, only I say that.


🙂


That's about all the smiling I do.

Feb 29, 2012 5:33 PM in response to OrangeMarlin

I asked this question on the MacBook Pro Forum since that is my devise and as a new user I can't get the trackpad to allow me to resize the page of an excel spreedsheet using the normal drag of the lower right corner. So, how do you do it??

If I have a need for the APPLE MacBook Pro - it sure seems like this is the correct place to ask.

Feb 29, 2012 5:57 PM in response to OrangeMarlin

Thanks- the multi-touch gestures helped. Dragging three fingers holding the top of the page finally allowed it to move. Then three fingers on the lower right corner allowed resizing. This applied not only to excel page but to open browser pages. The issue was the trackpad on MacBook Pro and probably on other trackpads with Lion.

It was NOT an Excel issue.

So you second replay was MUCH more helpful than telling me I was in the wrong place.

Keep Smiling

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