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Default How to print all text in a cell? - It cuts off the last few lines.

Perhaps it quits appearing because you have reached the cell limit for
viewable/printable characters.

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, 22 Aug 2006 07:10:03 -0700, Sgutsell
wrote:

When printing a matrix with long text write-ups - The last few lines of a
cell will be cut off. Is there a way to extend the parameters of a cell to
not do this? Or - are there other solutions?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP