How do I lengthen the text under icons?

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On My desktop I have a lot of Icons, various excel files mostly. BUt I
can't telkl most opf them apart until I place cursor over them because
the text is abbreviated with an elipse after just a couple words. How
can I lengthen this so I can always see three or four short lines of
text under an icon? And not one or two lines and an elipse.
 
Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Advanced
Under Item, scroll down to Icon Spacing(Horizontal) and
change size to larger number. May need to change other
Items - eg. Vertical Spacing, Icon size, etc. to view way
want Icon Text to show on desktop. Click Apply and Ok
after changing settings.
 
Nope. that gave me a little more space above and on the sides of the
many icons on mydesktop. But it did not end the problem of words
becoming elipsed after about 10-12 charatcers, or text more than two
lines long not showing up unless the icon is dragged and held over it.
Any other solutions?
 
When I change the size of Icon Spacing(Horizontal), it lengthens
the text size below icons and am able to see full text of desktop
icons. Have to experiment with different size settings.
Uncheck Auto Arrange and Align To Grid under Arrange Icons By>
and can then move the Icons on desktop to way want them and
choose amount of horizontal/vertical space between the icons.

Sorry, but no other suggestions. Perhaps someone else can
help you further.
 
Dont lengthen...........shorten the name of the file
Even XP has limitations of file name size
Or better still create a new folder on your desktop and drag all those
loooong filename files into it.
When you open the folder it will show you the full name of the file.

peterk
 
Dont lengthen...........shorten the name of the file
Even XP has limitations of file name size
Or better still create a new folder on your desktop and drag all those
loooong filename files into it.
When you open the folder it will show you the full name of the file.

peterk
Click to expand...

Here is another possible solution:

Open Display Properties, then select "Horizontal Icon Spacing", and
increase the setting by at least 60 pixels.

*** NOTE:This should make your desktop icons spaced very far apart ***

Donald L McDaniel
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