How to wrap text in Excel manually with line breaks. 1. To manually break up the text to move it onto another line, first double click on the cell, in the spot where you want to make the line break.

Right-click the Excel 2003 cell containing the text and select "Format Cells." Click the "Alignment" tab in the Format Cells window. Click the box next to "Wrap Text" to place a check-mark in it.

Next, just under Text control, click on the Wrap text box and the words in the cell will wrap. Now for the shortcut: Enter the first line of text you want to appear in the cell and then press ...