More Room, Please

In spite of the current Tiny House rage, it is safe to say that most of us prefer to have a bit More Room.  In addition to our abodes, this can apply also apply to Excel.

 As we all know, the focus of Excel is numbers. There are, of course, times when you need to enter some Text into cells as well, and you may even want to Add Another Paragraph (or perhaps just a line break) in a single cell. If you are working in Word, that’s easy – just hit the Enter key.

In Excel, however, hitting Enter will just take you to the next row below. “That is So Wrong!” you say, but don’t despair, the solution is so easy it will make you Laugh with delight (or maybe just smile…).

As we also all know, there is typically More Than One Way to do just about anything in Excel. I am a big fan of using the keyboard whenever possible, but we will look at a couple of techniques to enable a user to accomplish this very Simple, but Useful trick.

First Technique:
Once you have selected the cell you will be entering the text, simply click the Wrap Text button in the Alignment group of the Home ribbon (Excel 2007 – Excel 2016).

Second (and Totally Coolest!) Technique:
Using just the keyboard, all you need to do is press Alt+Enter to start a new line in the cell in which you are typing or editing. Does that Rock or What! Ask the other Excel Gurus in this office if they know this trick (I bet they don’t…).