Re: [libreoffice-users] Show full content of a cell when selected [Calc]

At 08:07 15/05/2015 -0700, Alichino Noname wrote:
> I have a cell with a large amount of text in it. I don't want to 
> Wrap text automatically because that will expand the cell.

Surely you *do* want to do that? A spreadsheet is designed for 
display in the editing screen or on a printed page. In either case it 
is difficult to imagine that you don't want to see what is in cells 
as you navigate around or read the spreadsheet.

> Instead I'd like to keep the cell small, and only expand when it is 
> clicked on, or manoeuvred onto via keyboard.

I don't see any way to do that.

I can imagine that you might perhaps have a single cell which has 
much more text than other cells in the same row and column, so that 
expanding either would be wasteful of display space. One way around 
this would be to put the text for that cell somewhere else - either 
out of the way on the same sheet or even on another sheet. You could 
then create a hyperlink to the actual text in the relevant (small) 
cell. This simplest way to do that is probably to give the target 
cell containing the actual text a name (Insert | Names > | 
Define...). In the original cell, go to Insert | Hyperlink, select 
Document, click the Target in Document button, expand "Range names", 
select the name, and then click Apply, Close, Apply, and Close. If 
you now double-click the original cell, the oversize text will be displayed.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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