When you use merged cells, you need to manually adjust the row height. In standard Excel, you cannot use the AutoFit feature on a row that contains a cell merged with cells in other columns or rows. Strangely, when using the AutoFit feature in Excel it completely ignores merged cells. Make the AutoFit Row Height work on merged cells Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to automatically fit the row height on merged cells too.