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    Seeing all the text in a worksheet cell

    I have been using Excel to take research notes for some years, but my system here at work has just upgraded to Vista. It seems to work differently from Windows 97 in a very important respect. Every row in my workbook is a data point, basically, for my research. In one cell, I enter a summary of the text of the document to which it refers. Now in Windows 97, when you clicked that cell, you saw all the text you had entered, even though that covered up a good many subsequent cells. Now that does not happen and I cannot find any way to see all the text at once, either in the cell or the formula bar. This will be a huge problem if I can't fix it. Does some one know how to change a setting so that when I click a cell I will see all the text in the cell? Thank you.

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    Hi,

    Are you using Excel 2007 as well? If you click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the formula bar this will make the formula bar deeper so you can see more text.
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    I had figured that out, and that is a help; but I used to be able to see all the text in the actual cell, too.

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    Hi,

    How about double-clicking either on the right hand side of the top of the column heading or on the bottom edge of the row heading (in either case the mouse cursor changes to a two-headed arrow)

    You could also try Format > Cells > Alignment > Wrap Text

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