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Format text across cells
If I copy a 10 line paragraph of text from the internet and paste it into
Excel, the text is all placed in a single cell. In Lotus I would then use \ Range Justify to wrap the text across several columns and down as many lines as it needed. Edit Fill Justify appears to do the same in Excell but only accepts about 256 characters and so deletes over half the text. Can you increase this limit or is there another way? Merging cells aeems to be cumbersome and inflexible. How do you adjust the size of the box after you have created it. Any ideas would be much appreciated |
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Peter
Workaround would be to copy the text into a text box. Drawing Toolbar has the Text Box button. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:40:32 GMT, "peterlsutton" wrote: If I copy a 10 line paragraph of text from the internet and paste it into Excel, the text is all placed in a single cell. In Lotus I would then use \ Range Justify to wrap the text across several columns and down as many lines as it needed. Edit Fill Justify appears to do the same in Excell but only accepts about 256 characters and so deletes over half the text. Can you increase this limit or is there another way? Merging cells aeems to be cumbersome and inflexible. How do you adjust the size of the box after you have created it. Any ideas would be much appreciated |
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Many thanks Gord for your speedy reply.
The problem is that I am not just doing this once, I am pulling a lot of information on garden plants ie paragraphs of text and pictures in from the internet then editing and reformatting them to produce my own pages on notes on a particular plant. In some ways it is more of a desktop publishing job, but I find Lotus is so easy to use and so flexible when you are not sure what layout you want. The main reason I wanted to try Excel is because my Lotus is now over 10 years old and only uses short file names. I had hoped that a modern Excel might have been even better than Lotus. Obviously not. Peter "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Peter Workaround would be to copy the text into a text box. Drawing Toolbar has the Text Box button. Gord Dibben Excel MVP |
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Sounds like MS Word or Publisher may be better suited to your project.
Excel was never designed to be a Word Processor or Graphics program and those features are rudimentary at best compared to other Office Apps. Gord On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:23:31 GMT, "peterlsutton" wrote: Many thanks Gord for your speedy reply. The problem is that I am not just doing this once, I am pulling a lot of information on garden plants ie paragraphs of text and pictures in from the internet then editing and reformatting them to produce my own pages on notes on a particular plant. In some ways it is more of a desktop publishing job, but I find Lotus is so easy to use and so flexible when you are not sure what layout you want. The main reason I wanted to try Excel is because my Lotus is now over 10 years old and only uses short file names. I had hoped that a modern Excel might have been even better than Lotus. Obviously not. Peter "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message .. . Peter Workaround would be to copy the text into a text box. Drawing Toolbar has the Text Box button. Gord Dibben Excel MVP |
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