Your cells will now not spill over either horizontally or vertically. Check the height of an adjacent row for a good value. Now select the row(s) in question and manually set the row height, by right clicking the row number and selecting "Row Height". Select the cells in question and turn on text wrapping (Format>Cells>Alignment>Wrap Text). This is unnecessary, a pain in the but, and will mess up any ISBLANK type formulas, among other things. Some people have suggested putting a space in the next cell. Each of those solutions can mess up the layout of your sheet.
Of course, you can make the column wider or turn on text wrapping, but you might not want to. How can you prevent a cell's contents from overflowing into the next cell? I am posting this solution for anybody still struggling with this. I saw two threads in this forum that asked this question, with no good answer. Is there a way to copy each one - whether as a table or as text - into The first column of each table is the strength of the tablet,Įntered as 1 mg., 2 mg., etc. Would like to copy into a more comprehensive file I am creating inĮxcel. Manufacturers' websites and entered it into tables in Word, which I
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Would like to have reference charts of how to identify the strength ofĮach tablet by its color and markings. The data in the table is information about my dad's medications. * The obvious solution of copying row by row into one Excel cell. What I am saving for when all else fails: Inserting the table as a Document Object, which could be a workaround, * The various options for "Paste Special." The closest I got was * Formatting the Excel cells as text before pasting the data. Merging into one cell keeps the upper-left most data only. Get a warning that the selection contains multiple data values, and
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I triedĬonverting the table into text with manual line breaks and tab stops toĭivide columns and rows, but that didn't solve my problem.Įxcel pastes the data into several rows. The first column of the table is a list of numbers. I would like to copy a small table from Word into one cell in an Excel