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    Wrapped text not visible

    I have the following workbook that has potential to display large amounts of text, particularly in the NOTIFICATIONS section. Despite the cells having Wrap Text selected, only a single line of the text is visible while the rest is only displayed when the cell is clicked. Can anyone help? Thanks
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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    i think it has to do with your merged cells in those rows. When I unmerged them it wrapped the text and auto sized the cell to fit the text.
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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    Can you think of a solution since unmerging those cells is going to alter the entire appearance?

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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    None that I can think of but maybe someone else with a better skill set than I have. You can keep many of the merged cells that you have and virtually an identical look without those set of cells merged (duty officers, notifications, roll call and alpha shift could be almost identical). It would create problems for your cells at row 31 and below.

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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    Precisely my concern, especially beacause of some other calculations on other sheets and wanting to maintain the appearance.

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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    I have found that Format Cells, Alignment, Horizontal: Center Across Selection works much better than merge and center. The only drawback that I have found with Center Across Selection is that the text is centered and cannot be changed to left aligned. However, Center Across Selection doesn't seem to interfere with calculations.

    Here is your file using Center Across Selection in the top sections.
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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    EXCELLENT!!! I was looking around online, and other than adding code, this is the best solution I have seen. Thank you very much!!

    PS---Thanks Sambo for your assistance as well!!!

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    Re: Wrapped text not visible

    You're welcome.

    I got onto this a while back when running into trouble on a worksheet for someone and this solved it for me...so pass it on when I can.

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