software

I have a financial application built on Excel. When I view the worksheets,
all of the column widths seem fine.

On occaison, when someone else views the same data in the worksheet, they
get the proverbial ###### showing the column is too small.

I know I can likely fix the problem by decreasing font size or increasing
column width. Also, I know that if I take protection off of the sheet the
user can change the columns (but I don't want to take a change on them also
deleting formulas, etc.)

However, is there some other setting that I can use that assures that
regardless who opens up the file, it uses settings from this worksheet rather
than taking on other user settings, i.e., if I don't have a column width
problem another shouldn't as well?

An suggestions glady accepted!