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Wrap Text in Excel
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Wrap Text in Excel
In excel, when you wrap text, the cell automatically expands to allow all of the text in the cell to be shown. However, if you then manually change the height of a cell (by using your mouse to hover over the row and clicking/holding and expanding), the wrap text no longer automatically expands in any of the cells across that whole row.
Is there a way to override this so that wrap text can be reinitiated?
For example, I often create budgets in Excel. And generally I get most of the work done and then might realise that it would look better if Column D for example was expanded in width. So I do that manually. But then all of those cells obviously have more space in them, which means that they all now don't need to be as long. Instead of moving the height of all of them manually, I should be able to un-wrap text and then re-wrap text. But because the original change I made was manual, it doesn't seem to want to do this! And when I re-wrap text, it does it, but the second and third lines are not visable on the sheet (unless I manually change the height).
Thanks,
Amy
RE: Wrap Text in Excel
Hi Amy
You're right. Wrapping text in Excel can be tricky!
As you said, after widening a column that contains wrapped text cells there will be extra row space. To make the text fit the row again try double-clicking in the row headings below the row number rather than clicking and dragging upwards.
I might have missunderstood the question so please let me know, thanks
Doug
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Mon 18 Mar 2013: Automatically marked as resolved.
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