How To Fit Longer Text Into Excel.


Hello Excellers. Welcome back to another Excel Tip. Today I will show you how to fit longer text into Excel. This is a simple trick. I have been asked this question recently so thought it was worthy of a short Excel blog post.

Do you ever have a long line of text in Excel?  It may look at bit like my screengrab below. Sometimes if you have a free text notes column or even longer names or addresses you end up with text running over multiple Excel cells.

So, if you look at Print Preview, you will see that the text is cut off.

  • File
  • Print
  • Print Preview pane

Wrap The Text.

To resolve this.

  • Select the cell that contains your text
  • Home Tab | Alignment Group
  • Under the text Control Section tick Wrap text

Your text will now look like the screengrab below. It still does not look very user friendly at this stage even with the text wrap.

There is one final part of this Excel tip. So. all that is needed is to adjust the width of the cell.

So, that is how to wrap or make longer text fit into an Excel cell. An easy solution to a common Excel question.

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Barbara is an experienced data analyst with over 20 years of experience. Author of the How To Excel At Excel Top 50 Excel tips Ebook, YouTuber and Excel Blogger.

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