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Moving paragraphs from MS Word to Excel
Hello,
In excel is there an alternative to using format|wrap text? I was wondering if it's possible to insert text from a word document into excel and have lines automatically cut off after a specified limit of characters/"whole words" - as it would appear in MS Word. For instance, if the first paragraph in my word document had 580 characters, I'd like to paste it into excel. Then I figure you can use a combination of trim, mid, and other text functions (that I'm unaware of) to return a specific range of characters. Let's say cell A1 had 580 character paragraph, and I chose that each line should have around 100 characters. I've started using the following technique. A1 = "paragraph" B1 = 90 (desired character length of each line) A2 = TRIM(MID(A1, 1,B1)) A3 = TRIM(MID(A1, B1*1+1,B1)) A4 = TRIM(MID(A1, B1*2+1,B1)) ..... But using these formul as will cut off words and punctuation where I don't want it to. Do you see what I'm tryi ng to say? |
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Thanks for that tip. If I have multiple paragraphs in word...is there
another trick to avoid having to count how many rows there will be in excel. I'd like to just copy and paste text from word to excel... and have some automated process where rows are created or adjusted wihout having to manually repeat steps. |
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Perhaps. If the text requires 5 rows and you have selected only 3, Excel
will tell you that. If there's no data below, you can simply say to to proceed with the paste. If you want to automate the whole thing, you'll have to write a macro. wrote in message ups.com... Thanks for that tip. If I have multiple paragraphs in word...is there another trick to avoid having to count how many rows there will be in excel. I'd like to just copy and paste text from word to excel... and have some automated process where rows are created or adjusted wihout having to manually repeat steps. |
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