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Making a cell bigger in Excel v.X
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Sep 21, 2005, 11:58 AM
 
Hey all, need some help with a slightly older version of Office (v.X)....

I need to make an individual cell within a spreadsheet be larger to fit all the text. I need it to be bigger heigth wise however, not just length. In Windows you just do a hard, or 'carriage' return and then it makes the cell get longer (gain height). I need to do on my Powerbook but I have tried holding down control, function, option, all the possible secondary keys while hitting return with no luck.

Any help will be appriciated,
Justin
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Sep 21, 2005, 04:51 PM
 
I got a bit confused with what you mean by height and length of cells, but I think what you want to do is to select the cell(s) of interest and go Format..Cells... Then in the Alignment tab, select 'Wrap text'. The height of the cell with then increase as you type into the cell. Hope this helps.
     
   
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