Text wrap in a cell and character limitation

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me why is it when you have a lot of characters in a cell and
even though you have selected text wrap for some reason after x amount of
characters it doesn't wrap anymore? Is there a way this can be fixed or do I
have to select the characters and copy to another cell? Any help you can
provide would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Gord Dibben]

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

Can anyone tell me why is it when you have a lot of characters in a cell and
even though you have selected text wrap for some reason after x amount of
characters it doesn't wrap anymore? Is there a way this can be fixed or do I
have to select the characters and copy to another cell? Any help you can
provide would be appreciated. Thanks.

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP