Cell/Row height auto fit dynamic text content from alternative worksheet

flatterno

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I've spent some time searching the forums here and while there are many similar queries, nothing quite fits for me.

I have a two column multi row table. Column A is a list of names, and Column B is every job that person will do, therefore all the items in Column A are a single name, but each cell in column B can contain several text items. The data for column B 'jobs' is created with textjoin() from text in several rows/columns with CHAR(10) as an argument to create each entry on a new line but within the same cell. Most people have a single job, but some have more than one.

PersonJob
Person 1Job 1
Job 2
Job 3
Person 2Job 1
Person 3Job 4
Job 8
Person 4Job 6

As this data is dynamic and going to be changing frequently for a few weeks, what I am trying to achieve is that the row heights for every row auto fit height whenever the content updates. If it helps, there's a relatively limited range of cells that I amend to update the dynamic content (D52:P89 on a worksheet called jobs). If the cell heights don't auto fit height, I'm worried I might miss some jobs as they are hidden at the bottom of the cell.

I'm a total newby to VBA, and have spent several days amending this document while work is quiet. I've attached a couple of VBA modules so far (to do things like add last-saved date etc) but at the moment I am learning.

Any advice would be welcome.
 

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VBA Code:
dim range1 as range
Set range1 = Range("D52:P89")
With range1
    .WrapText = True
    .Rows.AutoFit
End With
 
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Thanks for that jsb,

Sadly I am unable to get that code to work at the moment. I get a compile error 'Invalid Outside Procedure'. This is when I added the code you suggested as a new module via developer tools. Was this wrong?

I should also have clarified - the original data is on a different worksheet (source), and the sheet I wish to have to auto height work on is never directly edited (joblist).

Would I want your code on the source or jobslist sheet?

Many thanks for your suggestion
 
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