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DianeWms

How can I get a long block of wrapped text to print?
 
Even though I've tried to adjust the row height to fit the text, the last
several lines of a long block of text won't print or show up in the view. Why
won't Excel accept a long block of wrapped text?

pinmaster

How can I get a long block of wrapped text to print?
 
Excel has a limit as to how much text can be put and viewed into a cell. The
limit that can be put into a cell is around 3000 characters and using a
standard method of text entry the limit that can be viewed is around 1000
characters but as I recently found out you can double the amount that can be
viewed if you enter your text using the Alt+Enter method......insert the
cursor every 100th characters or so and hit Alt+Enter.

HTH
JG

"DianeWms" wrote:

Even though I've tried to adjust the row height to fit the text, the last
several lines of a long block of text won't print or show up in the view. Why
won't Excel accept a long block of wrapped text?


Dave Peterson

How can I get a long block of wrapped text to print?
 
Try inserting alt-enters (to force new lines within the cell) every 80-100
characters. You'll be able to see lots more text.

DianeWms wrote:

Even though I've tried to adjust the row height to fit the text, the last
several lines of a long block of text won't print or show up in the view. Why
won't Excel accept a long block of wrapped text?


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Dave Peterson

DianeWms

How can I get a long block of wrapped text to print?
 
Another undocumented MS feature? I did finally find in Help that characters
were limited to 1,024, which is another good reason to use one space between
sentences.
I keep telling folks to use Word for such tables.Thanks to both Dave and
Pinmaster.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Try inserting alt-enters (to force new lines within the cell) every 80-100
characters. You'll be able to see lots more text.

DianeWms wrote:

Even though I've tried to adjust the row height to fit the text, the last
several lines of a long block of text won't print or show up in the view. Why
won't Excel accept a long block of wrapped text?


--

Dave Peterson



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