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But the text can be on multiple rows too.

In this example, I had you type everything into one cell. This is probably a good time to remind you of the greatest keyboard shortcut of all time, Ctrl+Z, the shortcut for Undo. Anything already in those cells will be overwritten without further warning. Choose OK and Excel will continue filling your text into the cells below the range. Choosing Cancel will stop the Fill operation. The area you select can cover multiple rows and/or columns.Ĭaution : If the text won’t fit it the area you selected, you will get a warning that reads “Text will extend below selected range”. Excel will spread the text over as many rows as it needs to fit all of the text within the width of the area you selected. Or you could type it all into one cell, select the area you want the instructions to fill, click the Fill button on the ribbon, and choose Justify. Through trial and error you could type a few words into each cell until you figure out what fits. Let’s say you made a form in Excel and you want to place these instructions in a block, spread over several rows, instead of in one long line. The Justify option on Excel’s Fill command makes this process easier than you could have imagined. Have you ever wanted to put a block of text on a spreadsheet? It may have been instructions for those who would be using the spreadsheet or just a long description, but it was definitely a nuisance trying to get the right number of words on each line.