How do I text wrap past maximum characters (per cell) in an Excel worksheet?

-Right click the cell
-Format cells
-Alignment
-Check the "Wrap Text" box.

HTH,

Ken Puls, CMA - Microsoft MVP (Excel)
www.excelguru.ca

kaye2681 wrote:
How do I text wrap past maximum characters (per cell) in an Excel worksheet?

If you are at maximum characters how would you expect to get more?

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 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:25:02 -0700, kaye2681
wrote:

How do I text wrap past maximum characters (per cell) in an Excel worksheet?

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP