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Default Cell does not expand to fit text

In Excel 2003, I've got some text formatted with "Wrap text" format. I
normally expect a cell to expand to show all the text in the cell, but Excel
only shows part of the text. When I double-click on the row separator, I
expect Excel to expand the row height to show the full text, but Excel does
not expand it sufficiently. (It stops at Row Height = 240.) I can manually
expand the row height and Excel shows a couple more lines, but then it starts
leaving blank space at the bottom, and some of the text is still not shown.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Default Cell does not expand to fit text

How much text?

Excel will allow 32767 characters in a cell but display only 1024.

Add an Alt + Enter linefeed every 100 chars to expand this limit.


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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:01 -0700, Eric
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In Excel 2003, I've got some text formatted with "Wrap text" format. I
normally expect a cell to expand to show all the text in the cell, but Excel
only shows part of the text. When I double-click on the row separator, I
expect Excel to expand the row height to show the full text, but Excel does
not expand it sufficiently. (It stops at Row Height = 240.) I can manually
expand the row height and Excel shows a couple more lines, but then it starts
leaving blank space at the bottom, and some of the text is still not shown.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.


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