How to wrap text in Excel automatically and manually - Ablebits Method 1. Go to the Home tab > Alignment group, and click the Wrap Text button: Method 2. Press Ctrl + 1 to open the Format Cells dialog (or right-click the selected cells and then click Format Cells… ), switch to the Alignment tab, select the Wrap Text checkbox, and click OK. Compared to the first method, this one takes a couple of extra ...