Okay, I have an issue I've worked on for a bit. Essentially I'm producing an excel spreadsheet using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. Several columns include long text fields, and I need to break these into separate lines. I've split the text into lines using Text::Wrap. The formula bar shows separate lines, but the cell itself doesn't unless I go in and select it and then tab out of it. It appears all as one line, completely ignoring the newline.

Here's a minimal code sample (certain variable names have been changed to protect those not provably guilty): 
   $Text::Wrap::columns = 35;
   my $q = wrap ('','',$qa{$isin}) if defined $qa{$_};
   my $i = wrap ('','',$ib{$isin}) if defined $ib{$isin};
   my $j = wrap ('','',$jk{$isin}) if defined $jk{$isin};
   my $d = wrap ('','',$da{$isin}) if defined $da{$isin};
                                   
   push @data, [$q, $i, $j, $d];      
   $row++;
   ## $dd is a "Delta_Days" value from Date::Calc
   $worksheet->set_row($row-1, undef, $new) if $dd <= 7;
   $worksheet->set_row($row-1, 60, $notnew) if $dd > 7 and $dd <=14;
   $worksheet->set_row($row-1, 60, $stale) if $dd > 14;
   $worksheet->write('A'.$row, \@data);

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Does anyone know how to get these values to come out on separate lines, when first opening the spreadsheet? I'm just about ready to go and write this whole thing in html, then slap an xls extension on it -- except that file sizes seem to balloon ridiculously when that's done.

In reply to Excel single cell line breaks by SamCG

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