Comments on: Excel: prevent text from spilling over into next cells

When entering a long text in a cell, you may notice that sometimes it spills out into adjacent columns and at times gets hidden behind the neighboring cells. How does Excel determine what to do and how do you stop words from overflowing into next cells? Continue reading →

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  1. Is there a way to do this if I'm using a drop down in a cell? I tried all the tricks above and they don't prevent the spill over.

  2. My problem is that some or the text spills over when printed. Everything looks OK in print preview but when printed some text has spilled over even when there is content in the adjacent cell.

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