But it you want to wrap text (insert a line break) at a specific position, such as if you want to hyphenate a long word, you can use Alt+Enter at any time to start a new line within the same cell. When you turn on text wrapping, Excel will automatically start a new line wherever needed. The buttons for top, center, and bottom vertical alignment are to the left of the wrap text button. You can also use the Wrap Text button that is in the Alignment section of the Home ribbon. Ensure that Indentation, both before and after text, are set to zero and that no special formatting has been set.
#Excel text is not wrapping full#
That way you can control the appearance of other cells in the same area that don’t need the full height of the cell to display their text. While you are here, you can also choose to set the vertical alignment to top, center or bottom. I cannot seem to adjust how much text shows in the response.
These are verbatim text responses from a survey, so some responses are a few words, others are a few sentences. On the Alignment tab, check the box next to Wrap Text. I have a crosstab worksheet with all text responses in the Column shelf, and some customer identifies in the Rows shelf. To turn this option on, highlight the cell or cells you want to format (often it’s best to select an entire row or column) then right click on the selected area and choose Format Cells. You may want to do this anywhere on a spreadsheet, but it it especially common for column headings. However, this wont work in the following cases: Merged Cells Row. Try to open Excel in safe mode and check if error will appaer again.
The first 2/3 wraps fine, the last 1/3 stops wrapping (all in the same cell). Excel's Wrap Text does not work for merged cells, so you will have to decide which feature is more. The cell has not been merged and has plenty of room for the row. If not all wrapped text is visible in a cell, most likely the row is set to a certain height. When you turn on text wrapping, long pieces of text wrap around to the next line within a cell and the cell height adjusts automatically. Excel will automatically adjusts row height to best fit the text when wrap text is selected. If you still be unable to wrap it, please try the following: 1. The fastest way is to select the cell(s) and click the Wrap Text button (Home tab > Alignment group) to toggle text wrapping off. I have carriage returns within the cell for visibility to separate lines. apparent three previous posts of mine flagged - as violating community policy. In my example I want to word wrap after Sales. In the formula bar place the cursor after the place where you want your work to wrap. If you need to enter text that is too wide for your column, and you don’t want to split it into several rows, text wrapping is your answer. Again I have typed Yearly Sales Figures into cell A1, this time to manually wrap the text in both < 2007 and Excel 2007.