If you know Excel at all - please help!

I have a few questions about Excel that I'm sure even a moderate-level user will know the answers to; unfortunately I am at the level of "So, this is a worksheet. Huh."

Please, if you know anything about how to set columns so that they're automatically stretched to the size of the text in them, or how to put in a title row that doesn't move, or any short-cuts to navigate to the next row's first cell without wandering all over the place, please email me asap at tzikeh +at- thechicagoloop +dot- net.

Thank you in advance.

BTW: Gay (equal) rights - yay; meme - meh.

Grad school - week 6 - geek in love

I just got part I of my "record and transcribe" assignment back from my linguistics prof (on whom I have a huge crush, if you didn't know). On the first page before the transcription begins, the assignment requires a description of who took part in the conversation, where it took place, how you recorded it, etc. My set-up was a mini-recorder with my friend J's PowerBook's built-in mic and recording software doing back-up. Unfortunately, J was not quite as familiar as we would have hoped with the recording software, and only about 2/3 of the discussion got saved (luckily the tape survived). I included this fact in my opening page, and my prof commented in the margin "Damn computers! No wonder Adama doesn't trust them!"

::crush increases exponentially::