Excel Adding Text to a Textbox in Excell

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Ok this seems really elementary but...

I'm building a new spreadsheet that will contain a cell with text that will cause the cell to be bigger than a monitor and I'd like to add a scroll bar.

The easiest method seems to be to add an activeX text box in the cell, turn on multiline, scrollbars, wordwrap, etc.

Ok, I've done all that, but I want want the user to click on the textbox and be able to type, paste, etc data into the text box But I can't actually enter text in the textbox.

Am I missing something? When the textbox is clicked on in highlights it and shows the formula (=EMBED("Forms.TextBox.1",""). I can't type into the text box.

So how can I enable the user the type into the textbox, or is there another solution?

Thanks
 
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I believe the only way you would have
=EMBED("Forms.TextBox.1","")
showing is if youi are in Design Mode.
Go to the Developer ribbon and turn design mode off.
 

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