Can't see all of the paragraph text in the cell.
 

I am having to keep up with meeting minutes. When I type in a long paragraph
in one cell, it will show about 90% of what is typed and not show the rest.
I have tried to change the size of the row and column and I still can not see
the last 10% of what I have typed in the cell.

Help

Can't see all of the paragraph text in the cell.
 

First, I would think that MSWord would be a better tool for logging meeting
minutes.

But if you add an alt-enter (to force a new line within the cell) every 80-100
characters, you may find that you see lots more stuff.



KW wrote:

I am having to keep up with meeting minutes. When I type in a long paragraph
in one cell, it will show about 90% of what is typed and not show the rest.
I have tried to change the size of the row and column and I still can not see
the last 10% of what I have typed in the cell.

Help

--

Dave Peterson

Can't see all of the paragraph text in the cell.
 

KW

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 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:21:02 -0700, KW wrote:

I am having to keep up with meeting minutes. When I type in a long paragraph
in one cell, it will show about 90% of what is typed and not show the rest.
I have tried to change the size of the row and column and I still can not see
the last 10% of what I have typed in the cell.

Help

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

Can't see all of the paragraph text in the cell.
 

I would have liked to have used MSWord, but the meeting minutes have points
of discussion that turn into tasks that have to be updated for the next
meeting. I keep track of these tasks in the next column to keep an update on
the task discussed at previous meeting.

The Alt-Enter helps some, but I wish that there was a way to make it show
otherwise.

Thank you for your help. Another answer was to place this formula in the A1
Cell.
="xxx"&REPT(REPT("asdf",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy"

This did nothing but place asdf all over the top of the excel sheet. Try
it. I may have typed it in wrong or it may be typed on the reply to my
question wrong.

Thanks for your help.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

First, I would think that MSWord would be a better tool for logging meeting
minutes.

But if you add an alt-enter (to force a new line within the cell) every 80-100
characters, you may find that you see lots more stuff.



KW wrote:

I am having to keep up with meeting minutes. When I type in a long paragraph
in one cell, it will show about 90% of what is typed and not show the rest.
I have tried to change the size of the row and column and I still can not see
the last 10% of what I have typed in the cell.

Help

--

Dave Peterson