text runs out of cell into other ones

[nippyjones]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Just updated to X08 from Office. Some of cells with text in them (not wrapped) are overrunning the following cells, even when those cells have data in them, just showing a jumble of data on top of data. Clicking on the overrun cells makes the text on top go away (but it will remain in cells even farther down the road to the right), and it comes back.

It's a glitchy problem, not just a setting imho. It goes away if I "wrap text" on offending cell but then I can't see my first line of text. Any thoughts? Also is it possible to "wrap text" but still see the first sentence in a text cell?

 

[CyberTaz]

Always the first points to make: Be certain that both Office & OS X are
fully updated ‹ Office needs to be at 12.2.3, 10.6.2 for Snow Leopard.

If that isn't the problem there could possibly be a font issue... Something
quite common on SL based systems. Launch Font Book & run the Validate Fonts
& Resolve Duplicates routines. Then Restart your Mac.

As for the "first sentence" question, Excel really doesn't know what a
sentence is. The point at which the text wraps is determined by the
formatting of the cell content relative to the width of the column. You can
'force' a line break by using either Command+Option+return or
Control+Option+return.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac