How to display a long sentence in a single cell?

How to display a long sentence in a single cell?

What you need is a word wrap.

To do that, write the sentence that you want to see inside the cell.

Then follow these steps:

1. Right-click on the cell which contains the sentence.

2. Look for the “Format Cells…”

3. When you see the new window, select on the “Alignment” tab.

4. Look for “Text control under “Alignment” tab.

5. Click the check box which says “Wrap text”. And there you have it, an entire sentence in a single cell.

Hope this helps.

How to display a long sentence in a single cell?

Hello Dear,

Here is the solution if you are using Microsoft Excel 2010.

1. At first, write something in a cell says F8. It’s the solution.

2. Double click on that cell, and go to the same row, you will see the see is bigger.

3. Under home tab, there is a button named Wrap text.

4. Now point at ate left most corner of the sheet marking right arrow for selection of row 8.

5. Select desired row.

6. Click on wrap text button.

7. Experiment this and you will learn some other things.

Hope your problem is solved.

How to display a long sentence in a single cell?

Hi Beeky Kaitlyn,

To answer to your question of how to display a long sentence in a single cell, you can wrap text into a cell. There are two ways to go about this,

One, warp text in cells with Wrap Text Command and Two, Wrap Text with adding carriage or hard returns in cells.

1. Wrap text in cells with wrap command.

Microsoft Excel XP 2003/2002.

Select the cell that contains long sentence.

• Choose Format > Cells from the menu.
• Choose the Alignment tab.
• Click Wrap Text.
• Click OK. The text wraps.

Microsoft Excel 2007/2010.

Use the steps for Excel 2003/2002 or use the following:

• Firstly of all select the cells that you want to wrap text in them;
• Then click the Wrap Text in Alignment group under the Home tab.

 2. Wrap text by adding carriage or hard return in cells.

When you want to wrap the long sentence manually at a specific position, you need to add carriage return or hard return manually in cells.

The steps involve,

• Double clicking the cell you will work with, and get to edit it.
• Put the cursor at the specific position that you want the long sentence wrapped.
• Press the ALT key and Enter keys together.

These steps will wrap the long sentence at the specific cell you choose.

As you are new to Excel, the following site might help you

I hope this helps you.