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Default Disabling "wrap text" neuters alt-return line feeds within cell

Hello,

The online help for Microsoft Excel 2003 says to disable wrap-text in
order not to have wrapping of long lines within cells. However, doing
this also turns line feeds into non-line-feed characters (some kind of
strange symbol serving as a place-holder for the linefeed). I only
want to disable wrapping of long lines, I don't want to remove the
effect of hard coded line feeds. How is this done in Excel? (If it
can't be done, that would also be helpful to know). Thanks.

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If you have wraptext enabled, then you'll get a new line within the cell for
each alt-enter. And excel will break any line that's too long whereever it
wants.

If you turn off wraptext, then the alt-enters will appear as little squares.

But there isn't a middle ground.

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Hello,

The online help for Microsoft Excel 2003 says to disable wrap-text in
order not to have wrapping of long lines within cells. However, doing
this also turns line feeds into non-line-feed characters (some kind of
strange symbol serving as a place-holder for the linefeed). I only
want to disable wrapping of long lines, I don't want to remove the
effect of hard coded line feeds. How is this done in Excel? (If it
can't be done, that would also be helpful to know). Thanks.


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Dave Peterson wrote:
If you have wraptext enabled, then you'll get a new line within the cell for
each alt-enter. And excel will break any line that's too long whereever it
wants.

If you turn off wraptext, then the alt-enters will appear as little squares.

But there isn't a middle ground.


Thanks, Dave.

Fred


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Hello,

The online help for Microsoft Excel 2003 says to disable wrap-text in
order not to have wrapping of long lines within cells. However, doing
this also turns line feeds into non-line-feed characters (some kind of
strange symbol serving as a place-holder for the linefeed). I only
want to disable wrapping of long lines, I don't want to remove the
effect of hard coded line feeds. How is this done in Excel? (If it
can't be done, that would also be helpful to know). Thanks.


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