I'm working in Excel 2003. Throughout the entire spreadsheet there are cells
that when printed do not show all of the data. We have tried formatting the
height and width, wrap text but nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any
ideas?

RC

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 200 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 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:24:07 -0700, "RC" wrote:

I'm working in Excel 2003. Throughout the entire spreadsheet there are cells
that when printed do not show all of the data. We have tried formatting the
height and width, wrap text but nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any
ideas?