I'm having a problem with word wrap. I have a bunch of text in one cell. The
row is set at Autofit and cell formatted to word wrap, and the text wraps to
fit the column width - but only to a certain point. After a certain point, it
discontinues wrapping. Making the column wider does not help the problem.
Does anybody know what is going on here? Much appreciated.

Jason

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 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:30:01 -0800, Jason V <Jason
wrote:

I'm having a problem with word wrap. I have a bunch of text in one cell. The
row is set at Autofit and cell formatted to word wrap, and the text wraps to
fit the column width - but only to a certain point. After a certain point, it
discontinues wrapping. Making the column wider does not help the problem.
Does anybody know what is going on here? Much appreciated.