Wrapping Your Text

Summary: Using Wrap Text on the formatting menu to ensure all the text in a cell is displayed. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003.)

It is fairly easy to put more text in a cell than can be easily displayed. While you can widen the column to display all the text, that may not always work for your needs. Instead, you can wrap the text within the cell, so that the cell height is increased to display all the text. Follow these steps:

Select the cells whose formatting you want to affect.
Choose Cells from the Format menu. This displays the Format Cells dialog box.
Click on the Alignment tab. (Click here to see a related figure.)
Make sure the Wrap Text check box is selected.
Click on OK.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2676) applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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