#Excel hide overflow text manual#

Note: to remove a manual line break, double click a cell, place your cursor at the beginning of the line and press Backspace. To fix this issue, we need to use the function CLNG in VBA CLNG In VBA VBA CLng or 'VBA Convert to Long' is an in-built Excel function that facilitates converting the numerical values or data exceeding the long data type limit into the acceptable data type. Place your cursor at the location where you want the line to break. To insert a manual line break, execute the following steps.Ģ. If your text data is long, you can increase the cell width to fit the data length. This is usually about 64 pixels wide and 20 pixels tall. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, click Top Align. A normal Excel sheet has cells that are 8.43 points in width and 15 points in height. Note: by default, Excel aligns text to the bottom (see cell A1).ħ. In the opening Format Cells dialog box, go to Alignment tab, and select Fill from the Horizontal drop down list. Enter an extra-long text string in cell B1 and wrap the text in this cell. Select the column/list that you will prevent cell contents from overflowing, right click and select the Format Cells. Simply double click the bottom border of a row header to fix this.ĥ.

Note: if you manually set a row height (by clicking on the bottom border of a row header and dragging the separator), Excel does not change the row height when you click the Wrap Text button. Double click the bottom border of the row 1 header to automatically adjust the row height. Click on the right border of the column A header and drag the separator to increase the column width.Ĥ.

On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, click Wrap Text.ģ.

Excel hide overflow text