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With a large amount of text in a cell, word wrap enabled, row autofit
enabled, column width 81.71, only 12 lines of text will display. The total
text will display in the formula bar. I can manually increase the row
height, but the additional text will not display. How do I increase the
amount of text displayed in an individual cell?

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Add some manual (forced) line breaks - <Alt <Enter - at some appropriate
places.

This will increase the amount of displayed text.
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With a large amount of text in a cell, word wrap enabled, row autofit
enabled, column width 81.71, only 12 lines of text will display. The total
text will display in the formula bar. I can manually increase the row
height, but the additional text will not display. How do I increase the
amount of text displayed in an individual cell?

Thanks.
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JE McGimpsey
 
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XL's specifications are that cells can contain 32767 characters, of
which 1024 will be displayed or printed.

You can enter a manual linefeed (Alt-Enter) at least every 1024
characters to bypass the display limit.

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With a large amount of text in a cell, word wrap enabled, row autofit
enabled, column width 81.71, only 12 lines of text will display. The total
text will display in the formula bar. I can manually increase the row
height, but the additional text will not display. How do I increase the
amount of text displayed in an individual cell?

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Dave Peterson
 
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Add alt-enters (to force a new line within the cell) every 80-100 characters.

dbelch01 wrote:

With a large amount of text in a cell, word wrap enabled, row autofit
enabled, column width 81.71, only 12 lines of text will display. The total
text will display in the formula bar. I can manually increase the row
height, but the additional text will not display. How do I increase the
amount of text displayed in an individual cell?

Thanks.
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