word wrap in excel

Word wrap works great for the majority of my document, but for cells
containing more text (over 10 lines or so) the word wrap does not work, and
portions of the text is hidden from view.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Thanks,
jc

jeremy

It is not a word-wrap problem.

It is a character-limit per cell problem.

Excel Help on "limits" or "specifications" reveals that Excel will allow
32,767 characters to be entered in a cell.

However, it goes on to state that "only 1024 characters will be visible or can
be printed"

To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate
spots, about every 100 characters..

The ALT + ENTER forces a line-feed and expands the 1024 limit.

How far is not really known. Just experiment.

.........From Dave Peterson..........

I put this formula in A1:
="xxx"& REPT(REPT("asdf ",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy"

And adjusted the columnwidth, rowheight and font size and I got about 7300
characters to print ok.

.........End Dave P.................

Failing that, use a Text Box to store the text or MS Word which is a word
processing application, unlike Excel which is not.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:22:02 -0700, jeremy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Word wrap works great for the majority of my document, but for cells
>containing more text (over 10 lines or so) the word wrap does not work, and
>portions of the text is hidden from view.
>
>Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
>Thanks,
>jc

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

Thanks Gordon. I will try that.
Jeremy

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

> jeremy
>
> It is not a word-wrap problem.
>
> It is a character-limit per cell problem.
>
> Excel Help on "limits" or "specifications" reveals that Excel will allow
> 32,767 characters to be entered in a cell.
>
> However, it goes on to state that "only 1024 characters will be visible or can
> be printed"
>
> To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate
> spots, about every 100 characters..
>
> The ALT + ENTER forces a line-feed and expands the 1024 limit.
>
> How far is not really known. Just experiment.
>
> .........From Dave Peterson..........
>
> I put this formula in A1:
> ="xxx"& REPT(REPT("asdf ",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy"
>
> And adjusted the columnwidth, rowheight and font size and I got about 7300
> characters to print ok.
>
> .........End Dave P.................
>
> Failing that, use a Text Box to store the text or MS Word which is a word
> processing application, unlike Excel which is not.
>
>
> Gord Dibben Excel MVP
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:22:02 -0700, jeremy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Word wrap works great for the majority of my document, but for cells
> >containing more text (over 10 lines or so) the word wrap does not work, and
> >portions of the text is hidden from view.
> >
> >Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >jc
>
> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>