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Text will not wrap

I am typing in Excel. I have clicked wrap text, expanded the box to view all the verbiage but after several lines, it will not wrap anymore. The last few sentences will not show in the cell at all.

  • cindy73 Sep 03, 2008

    It is Microsoft 2003.

  • Tim Babcock
    Tim Babcock May 11, 2010

    What version of Excel are you using?

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Under the format of the cell, wrap text is checked. I believe there is a size limitation of characters to a cell. I believe its 255 characters. You could try using an adjacent cell an use a merge cell format as well as the wrap text by highlight both cells.

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