I have a problem with displaying and printing very long wrapped text cells on
a spreadsheet. When the length of the text string goes beyond a certain
limit, Excel truncates the displayed text, even if there is sufficient room
to display the text in the cell. Is there any way around this?

Rich

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 100 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 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:37:01 -0700, RichK
wrote:

I have a problem with displaying and printing very long wrapped text cells on
a spreadsheet. When the length of the text string goes beyond a certain
limit, Excel truncates the displayed text, even if there is sufficient room
to display the text in the cell. Is there any way around this?

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP