How to prevent text from spilling over to next cell in Excel?
Author: Sun Last Modified: 2024-09-03

Have you ever annoyed that when your data is longer than the cell width, it will spill over to next cell as below screenshot shown. Now I will tell you the method to prevent text from spilling over to next cell in Excel.
Prevent text form overlapping cells
Prevent text form overlapping cells
Prevent text form overlapping cells
To prevent text from overlapping cells, you can do as follow:
1. Select the cells you want to prevent cell contacts from spilling over and right click, then select Format Cells from the context menu. See screenshot:
2. In the Format Cells dialog, click Alignment tab, then select Fill in the drop down list of Horizontal. See screenshot:
3. Click OK. Now the data in the selected cells will never spill over.

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