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Thursday, April 23, 2009

MrExcel's Learn Excel #999 - Wrap Really Long Text

Ann from Wisconsin writes with a really annoying Wrap Text problem in Excel 2003. Episode 999 suggest a few workarounds to solve the problem.

This video is the podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

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Monday, February 04, 2008

Episode 686 - Preventing Spills

Ari sends in a better solution to podcast 677. If you want to prevent text from long cells spilling over to adjacent blank cells, the technique shown in Episode 686 works like a charm. This method might even clean up spills faster than Bounty...

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Episode 677 - Preventing Spills

David from Spain sends in today's question. When you have a long text cell, it will tend to spill and show up in adjacent blank cells. David notes that you can add an apostrophe to the blank cell to prevent this. In Episode 677, we take a look at a faster way to solve this problem.

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Episode 362 - Pasted WebData

When you copy and paste data from a web browser to Excel, a number of maddening settings come along with the data. In Episode 362, I will show you how to turn off the wrap text feature and get the columns wide enough to fit the data.

This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

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