IF you FIRST change the row height to 13 or 12.5 (a wee bit off 12.75), OR
FIRST use Format/Row/Height (and leave it as 12.75), it won't happen.
However, you may see very little of the text -- it's still marked as word
wrap.
The smallest # of steps to rectify the original problem is to do the paste,
then format the cell to NOT be word wrap.

"Hal" wrote in message
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Hello,

In Excel 2000, whenever I paste a large paragraph into a single cell, the
cell/row height increases. Is there a way to prevent this from happening,
keeping it at the default 12.75?

Thank you in advance.

Hal.