Entering a long text item

When you create a new spreadsheet, each column is 80 points wide by default.

A point in this case is 1/96 of an inch or 0.026cm and is not the same as the typographical measure (where a point is 1/72 of an inch and used to measure font size).

If the text you want in the cell is longer than the default width, you can enter the text and let it overflow into the next cell. If there is no information in the cell to the right, the whole text is displayed, otherwise Ability ‘clips’ the text at the cell boundary.

An alternative is to allow the text to be wrapped within the cell (see Cell alignment).

See also:

Entering text