I'm trying to create a protected excel sheet that will be used as a form for reporting service outages.

The reason is that using word documents doesn't (or isn't set up to) allow easy polling of the data for using it in cumulative status reports.

Is it possible to have the row height automatically expand as someone types in a cell so that all text remains visible?

Otherwise s there a way to either make a merged set of cells expand down another row if it needs more room to display all the text being typed in it? So if the merged cells were A1:C13 and someone keeps typing a lot, it would automatically extend to A1:C14 so that all text remains visible? Could this then 'push down' all other cells so that it doesn't overwrite anything?