WHY DOES MICROSOFT OFFICE NOT HAVE A CLIP FEATURE FOR EXCEL CELLS?

Dear Maha Ayoub,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

We understand that you would like to organize the overflow file of cells and make a confirmation of the linked information in Excel.

According to your description, you are editing an Excel document in a cell, you may enter too much text to show overflow to other cells, not sure what you indicated the simple function shown in Google Excel.

Because Google Excel and Microsoft Excel belong to different product information, for some functions on the operation may be different, in order to further help you confirm the function of Microsoft Excel information, you can try to operate:

(not sure what system you are trying Microsoft Excel, the following for the Windows system Excel features to help you, if you are other systems, you can reply to us)

1. Open your Excel document, select the text information you overflow cells or select the cell area where you want to add the document:

2. Select “Start” on the Common Ribbon and choose “Alignment” to expand.

3. Select “Alignment”, in the “text alignment”, select “horizontal” for “fill”, Click OK

4. After you change, the text in your cell will only be displayed in one of your cells, but you need to adjust the corresponding cell width to help display the full.

At the same time, if you want to adjust to the existing cell size and complete display of your text, you can also try:

1. Select the cell where you entered the text, click “Alignment” in the “Wrap Text”.

2. After the line feed, your text will be displayed in a cell, according to your text will be adjusted to the corresponding cell information.

At the same time, about your inquiry when you click the link in Excel, do not want to wake up the link for redirection, need to explain with you:

Excel if you add the corresponding hyperlink information, your mouse form is the shape of the arrow, click on the cell directly, will default you need to open the hyperlink and view, jump to your hyperlink information.

If you want to select the link, but do not want to activate, you can try:

1. Click on the cell containing the hyperlink information, press and hold the mouse button until the pointer is marked with a cross, and then release your mouse button, you can select the cell without jumping.

You can try to operate to see if it can help you to confirm that the cell information is correct.

Also, you may need to reconfirm if you need another way to open or lock a cell's hyperlink.

You can also give your suggestions and ideas on the dedicated feedback platform Excel (microsoft.com) (English only), where your feedback will be followed and commented on by specialized developers.

If you have more ideas or can't realize your needs, you can reply to us, and we further help you to confirm the information.

Hope it helps.  If any update, welcome to share with us.

We look forward to your response.

Best Regards,

Zenobia.Z | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Thanks for the fast and detailed response.

I tried that just now, and it worked on one line of cells; I tried it again on a different line, and it doesn't work; I tried it on a separate cell instead of a full line, and it still doesn't work. I tried to copy the format and that doesn't work either. In Google docs I am able to select the whole sheet and click the "clip" feature button and it works momentarily with no issues.