Excel should have a hanging indent for long text entries

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Suggestion: You could much more easily pick out the first word (i.e., the
first line) in a cell in a column of cells each containing a long, wrapped,
text entry, if Excel had the capability of first-line hanging indents (like
Word). Compare:

Aarts, De Heer & Vroom, Emission Cross Sections of the
First Negative Band System of N2 by Electron Impact,
Physica 40, 197, 1968 .pdf
Ashkenas, Rot Temp Meas in Ebeam Excited Nitrogen,
Phys of Fluids, 10, 2509, 1967.pdf
Berry&Lillicrap, Rot Temp Meas's in Low-Density Flows,
AIAA J, 1970.pdf
Brocklehurst, Luminescence,,,Part1,Collisional Deactivation
in Nitrogen, Trans Of Faraday Soc, 1964.pdf

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Aarts, De Heer & Vroom, Emission Cross Sections of the
First Negative Band System of N2 by Electron Impact,
Physica 40, 197, 1968 .pdf
Ashkenas, Rot Temp Meas in Ebeam Excited Nitrogen,
Phys of Fluids, 10, 2509, 1967.pdf
Berry&Lillicrap, Rot Temp Meas's in Low-Density Flows,
AIAA J, 1970.pdf
Brocklehurst, Luminescence,,,Part1,Collisional Deactivation
in Nitrogen, Trans Of Faraday Soc, 1964.pdf
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For a list like this, you might be better off creating a table in MSWord and
using all its formatting capabilities.
 
I agree. This would be a handy feature. So many other formatting options
are already included in Excel. I believe this request is feasible.

I also disagree with using word to create tables, unless it is used as a
reference to a document. At that point, I copy a table from excel and insert
into my word document.

Jasen
 
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