Things to Keep in Mind Before You Start
There are a few things to keep in mind when you’re wrapping text. First, wrapping text will cause your cells to resize. If you have a lot of text in a cell, it might make your spreadsheet look a bit messy.
Second, you may want to adjust the alignment of your text after you’ve wrapped it. We’ll talk more about how to do that in the section about toolbar icons. Now, how to wrap text in Google Sheets?
The Format Menu: How to Wrap Text in Google Sheets
If you’re working in Google Sheets on a computer, the first thing you’ll want to do is open up the Format menu. To do this, click on the “Format” option in the top toolbar.
In the Format menu, there are a few different options for how you can format your text. For our purposes, we’re going to focus on the “Text wrapping” option. It’s located under “Merge cells” and above “Text rotation.”
When you hover over the “Text wrapping” option, you’ll see a few different options for how your text can be wrapped. The default is “Overflow,” which means that the text you enter into a cell stays in one line and overflows empty adjacent cells if the text doesn’t fit.
If you want to wrap your text, click on the “Wrap” option. This will cause your text to wrap within the cell boundaries and be displayed on multiple lines.
How to Do It Via Toolbar Icons
You can access the same settings directly from the toolbar. How to wrap text in Google Sheets using icons? Here’s how:
- Locate the alignment settings on the toolbar. The first icon looks like four lines, alternating long and short. Click on it, and you’ll be able to align the text to the left, center, or right. For best readability, we recommend aligning it to the left.
- The next icon looks like an arrow pointing down to a line. Here, you can align your text to the top, middle or bottom of the cell. If you want to wrap cell contents of different lengths, we recommend aligning the text to the top.
- Finally, there’s the text wrap icon, which looks like two vertical lines with the second one broken by an arrow. The middle setting in the drop-down menu is for wrapping text. Click it with the desired cells highlighted, and your text will wrap.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Text Wrapping in Google Sheets
If you want to know how to wrap text in Google Sheets quickly, you’ll be happy to know there are keyboard shortcuts for it. You can press Alt+H, W or Alt+O, W, W – whichever works. Of course, you can’t do this on mobile. Read on if you’re a mobile user.
How to Enable Text Wrapping in the Google Sheets Mobile App
The Google Sheets app for iOS and Android doesn’t have all the features that the desktop version does. However, you can still enable text wrapping in the mobile app. Here’s how:
- Open up the Google Sheets app and open your desired file.
- Select the cells you want to format.
- Tap the “Format” icon in the toolbar (it looks like the letter A with four horizontal lines next to it).
- Within the pop-up that appears, go to the “Cell” tab.
- Toggle the switch next to “Wrap text” to the on position.
Now your text will wrap in the cells you selected. You can then adjust column width and row height to better suit your needs.
Change Column Width for Better Readability
Once you’ve wrapped your text, you may need to adjust the column width for better readability. To do this, simply hover your mouse over the line between two column headers. When the cursor changes to a resize icon, click and drag the line to adjust the width of the column. That’s it! Your text should now be wrapped and easy to read.
Wrapping Up
We hope this article has helped you learn how to use the wrap text option in Google Sheets. As you can see, it’s a relatively simple process. You can do it via the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, or the “Format” menu. It’s also possible to do on the mobile app. Once you’ve wrapped your text instead of letting it overflow other cells, don’t forget to adjust column width for better readability.
If the text starts at a different height in different cells, what you need to do is change the alignment to “top.” This will make all the text start at the same height, making it look cleaner. And if some text is centered, you can align it to the left or right by using the “Alignment” icon on the toolbar.
There you have it – how to wrap text in Google Sheets! We hope this article has been helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below.
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