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How to move words to next line in an Excel cell?

For the content in cell viewed neatly and orderly, we may need to move the words to next line as below screenshot shown, is there any way to handle it in Excel?

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Move words to next line by inserting line break

Move words to next line by Wrap Text


Move words to next line by inserting line break

You can use the shortcut to insert a line break to move the words to next line as you need.

Click at the location where you want to move the last words to the next line, and hold Alt, and press Enter key, then the words behind the cursor will be moved to the next line in the cell.

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Move words to next line by Wrap Text

If you want to automatically move words to next line by the cell size, you can apply the Wrap Text utility.

Select the cells you want to use, and click Wrap Text under Home tab. See screenshots:
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