XL98: Changing Alignment and Indent Causes Text to Disappear
Article ID: 178451
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q178451
SYMPTOMS
When you enter data in a cell, you may not be able to see the data in the
cell. However, you can see the data in the formula bar.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs when the following conditions are true:
- You change the horizontal alignment of the cell to left alignment and
specify an indent value that is greater than the length of the
string that is in the cell.
-and-
- You change the vertical alignment of the cell to justified alignment.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, do not set the indent to a value greater than
the number of characters in the cell.
STATUS
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98.
REFERENCES
For more information about aligning text, click the Index button in
Microsoft Excel 98 Help, type the following text:
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Center, align,
indent, or rotate data in a cell" topic.
Additional query words: XL98
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