Comments on: Two Lines, No Waiting

By: farhan naqvi

farhan naqvi — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:14:00 +0000

thanx for help on this.

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:37:00 +0000

Another way to roll over to the next line as a whole is to use a non-breaking space between the words "in" and "thousands"
From the Insert menu, choose Symbol, Special Characters, Nonbreaking Space.

By: Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)

Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel) — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:43:00 +0000

@Laura,

I am not a Mac user so I cannot verify this, but I did a quick Google search and found a link that said CONTROL+OPTION+RETURN will start a new line within the same cell. So that you can look up more keyboard shortcuts, here is the link I got that from...

http://www.district196.org/rhs/techhelp/rhs/excel2001keybdshortcuts.pdf

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:21:00 +0000

This doesn't work on Macs, any suggestions? When I press alt + enter, it just goes enter to the next cell.

This is kind of killing me and killing time.

By: Brett Hamilton

Brett Hamilton — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:49:00 +0000

@ Farhan

1. The row and column count are fixed. No increases or decreases without upgrading the XL release you are on. You can hide rows and columns to present a smaller worksheet, or do the same through restricting the scroll area of a worksheet. Without defining the scroll area through VBA, you can do this in the properties dialog box when the worksheet is the active object. I'm going to assume you are not using 2007, as it has more rows and columns than are easily exhausted. If your issue is data storage, consider putting the data in a database and use XL to import only what you need at the time.

2. No soap here either. However, you can enter text, say in C4, and then reference that cell with the formula =Upper(C4). Or, you can use one of the many operations in John Walkenbach's Power Utility Pak to change a cell or range of cells to upper case. I think it is fun to learn VBA and roll your own text manipulation subroutines. I'm a fan of thick Excel books and visiting sites like this one regularly. Also, if you search the 'net, I think you'll find that just about every question has been asked and answered.

Keep XLer8ing,
Brett

By: Farhan Naqvi

Farhan Naqvi — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:49:00 +0000

1, How can incerse rows & column in ms excel thanx for help

2, how can enter capital word without caps lock on

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:35:00 +0000

My question is, if your text line is *really* long and spills over the page margin, how do you make it fit on the page (in two or three lines of text) without wrapping all the text into one very tall cell (i.e. a narrow column)? I haven’t been able to find out how to do this and it’s driving me crazy. Any ideas? Thanks, and since I am a beginner, I need very specific info.

By: Dick

Dick — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:39:00 +0000

Wendy: You know, JWalk should add that to his PUP utilities. It would be easy to write and pretty darn useful.

By: Wendy!

Wendy! — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:24:00 +0000

I have tried to teach this tip of the day to my co-workers many times to no avail. One of my pet peeves is having to clean up after people who make column headings in row 1, 2 and 3 etc instead of wrapping text. I have to do this 4 time a week at least. I always wonder if it is easier to concatenate the rows or re-type. Often it's a toss up.

Thanks for listening.