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Hello,

I am using XL2003 on WinXP.

I have a concatenation formula that pulls text from 2 other worksheets. All
cells involved are formatted with Merge & Center and text wrap. The result
is that the first cell brought in is formatted correctly (text wraps), the
second cell loses the wrap.

Is there any way to force the text wrapping on the results?

Thank you for any information you can provide,
Diane
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format the target cell also with word wrap and it should work

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DFM wrote:
Hello,

I am using XL2003 on WinXP.

I have a concatenation formula that pulls text from 2 other
worksheets. All cells involved are formatted with Merge & Center and
text wrap. The result is that the first cell brought in is formatted
correctly (text wraps), the second cell loses the wrap.

Is there any way to force the text wrapping on the results?

Thank you for any information you can provide,
Diane



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Hi,

Already tried that with no luck. Any other ideas?

Thank you, Diane


"Frank Kabel" wrote:

Hi
format the target cell also with word wrap and it should work

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

DFM wrote:
Hello,

I am using XL2003 on WinXP.

I have a concatenation formula that pulls text from 2 other
worksheets. All cells involved are formatted with Merge & Center and
text wrap. The result is that the first cell brought in is formatted
correctly (text wraps), the second cell loses the wrap.

Is there any way to force the text wrapping on the results?

Thank you for any information you can provide,
Diane




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Hi
post your exact formula and the entries in your source cells

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

DFM wrote:
Hi,

Already tried that with no luck. Any other ideas?

Thank you, Diane


"Frank Kabel" wrote:

Hi
format the target cell also with word wrap and it should work

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

DFM wrote:
Hello,

I am using XL2003 on WinXP.

I have a concatenation formula that pulls text from 2 other
worksheets. All cells involved are formatted with Merge & Center
and text wrap. The result is that the first cell brought in is
formatted correctly (text wraps), the second cell loses the wrap.

Is there any way to force the text wrapping on the results?

Thank you for any information you can provide,
Diane



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Diane

Merged cells will allow "wrap text" from FormatCellsAlignment but..........

Excel has a problem auto-fitting merged cells.

You can resize manually or via Macro. Jim Rech has written
code for this.

http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...%40tkmsftngp05

Note also a recent adaptation of this code by Greg Wilson.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P37D24B15

The best cure is DON"T USE MERGED CELLS. They cause no end of problems with
copying, pasting, sorting, filtering.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:27:05 -0800, DFM wrote:

Hello,

I am using XL2003 on WinXP.

I have a concatenation formula that pulls text from 2 other worksheets. All
cells involved are formatted with Merge & Center and text wrap. The result
is that the first cell brought in is formatted correctly (text wraps), the
second cell loses the wrap.

Is there any way to force the text wrapping on the results?

Thank you for any information you can provide,
Diane




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Thank you.

I hear you on "don't use merged cells"! But you know how it is, this person
is insisting...

Thank you all for your quick response.

Happy Holidays!
Diane

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Diane

Merged cells will allow "wrap text" from FormatCellsAlignment but..........

Excel has a problem auto-fitting merged cells.

You can resize manually or via Macro. Jim Rech has written
code for this.

http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...%40tkmsftngp05

Note also a recent adaptation of this code by Greg Wilson.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P37D24B15

The best cure is DON"T USE MERGED CELLS. They cause no end of problems with
copying, pasting, sorting, filtering.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:27:05 -0800, DFM wrote:

Hello,

I am using XL2003 on WinXP.

I have a concatenation formula that pulls text from 2 other worksheets. All
cells involved are formatted with Merge & Center and text wrap. The result
is that the first cell brought in is formatted correctly (text wraps), the
second cell loses the wrap.

Is there any way to force the text wrapping on the results?

Thank you for any information you can provide,
Diane



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