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How to prevent text from spilling over to next cell in Excel?

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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

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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:

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2. In the Format Cells dialog, click Alignment tab, then select Fill in the drop down list of Horizontal. See screenshot:
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3. Click OK. Now the data in the selected cells will never spill over.

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Poxa, estava cheia de esperanças e não funcionou :(
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Did not work for me either.
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Muito bom! Muito útil
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Concise and clear, thanks!
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Worked fine and then things went wrong. I typed a single N in one cell and it filled it with NNNNNNNNNNNNNN. I had double entries for longer strings of text, like "Single NarrativeSingle Narrative" so this solution didn't work for me. :(

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