I'm trying to write a new purchase agreements templete in excel.  The top 15
rows of the templete is basically text with a bunch of merged cells and then
some single cells that I use to fill in the blanks; ie, date, name, address.

The remainder of the rows I use to list all the options on the left side of
the sheet and the value (price) on the right side of the sheet.  In order to
do this so it looks professional I need to make column "A" considerable
wider, however if i highlight all of column "A" and try to make it wider it
alters all the text in the top 15 rows.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks!