Can't resize Excel spreadsheet

Have you tried double clicking on the top bar of the excel window?

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Yes that only fills up the desktop but none of it does fullscreen mode

Open an Excel file. At the bottom right of the open window, grab the corner and expand the window to fullscreen. Then save the file. Thereafter it will open fullscreen.

Worked for me! Merci!

On the Menu, to to Window, click on Arrange and then select either Tiled or Horizontal. That resizes it to fit the screen.

This worked really well -- thanks all.

The reason why it seems to happen is that people who have gigantic screens create spreadsheets, but when you display them on laptop proportioned screens the bottoms end up being cut off from view.

It is really a bug in Excel that it does not automatically resize a spreadsheet to fit the size of the screen that it is displayed on.

Never give a developer or a Quality Assurance Tester a full size screen would be the take-away lesson on this one. ;-)

Excellent answer!

Simplest solution:
In the Excel menu bar pulldown, select "zoom" under the "Window" header...
Regardless of where your open file is on the desktop, it will automatically resize to fit your entire screen (below the menu bar)... with the exception that - using THIS method - the entire open document fits within the screen.... including the anchor in the far right lower corner that allows you to place you cursor on it and resize to the desired aspect, as you normally would with any window!

Thanks Bob! This worked for me...

Bob NYC wrote:

On the menu bar click on Window and select Zoom Window. This works for me.

Bob

@Bob NYC: Brilliant...simple and easy and EXACTLY what i needed to be able to re-size. Thanks!

gmardon,

THANK YOU!!! Was driving me insane!

Great solution that works! Thanks!

Peter

thank you so much for this - it has been driving me crazy since the day I switched from my pc to the mac!

A simpler way is to drag t Excel window down by clicking the top grey window bar. Then you can resize by dragging the top edge of the window.

But this problem only arose with Yosemite so I think its a typically complacent Apple position that it's down to an Excel bug. About time Apple put resources into what its users actually need rather than poorly redesigning iTunes to make it less usable.

I have exactly the same problem with Excel window size and Citiboy's Zoom Window solution works well. HOWEVER, when I try to SAVE my worksheet the banner presented is too big for my screen and I cannot see the OK or CANCEL buttons (or whatever they might be). Fortunately, RETURN works for Save and ESCAPE does the cancel. I have spoken to MicroSoft Support and they say "Delete and re-install MS-Office 2011". Am reluctant to do that, but wonder what the real conflict is between Yosemite and Excel (there is no problem with Word)?

I have spoken to MicroSoft Support and they say "Delete and re-install MS-Office 2011".

I just tried that. No problems reinstalling but it didn't fix the issue at all.

What's more, when Save As ... in Preview the Save button isn't visible at the bottom of the dialogue, just have to press Return and hope for the best. Report as bug to Apple.