I want to add a variable length of text to a number of merged horizontal cells in a spreadsheet so that when more than one
line of text is required the row height is automatically increased so that all the text can be seen.
I have read in a book about writing Excel macros in VBA that the Range Object has a WrapText property that when true should do what I want.
I have attempted this in the Perl code below but all I can see is the first line and the row height has not changed. The Excel button shows that TextWrap is set for the cell when I move the cursor into the cell.
Can any Monk explain how I can achieve what I want?
use OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const "Microsoft Excel";
use strict "vars";
my ($excel, $workbook, $sheet);   
#___ DEFINE EXCEL
$excel = CreateObject OLE "Excel.Application";
#___ MAKE EXCEL VISIBLE
$excel -> {Visible} = 1;
#___ ADD NEW WORKBOOK
$workbook = $excel    -> Workbooks -> Add;
$sheet    = $workbook -> Worksheets("Sheet1");
$sheet                -> Activate;
$sheet -> Range("B2:J2") -> Merge;
$sheet -> Range("B2:J2") -> {WrapText}   = "True";
$sheet -> Range("B2:J2") -> {Value} = "The cat sat on the mat under th
+e Christmas tree looking at the chocolate mouse that the little boy h
+ad dropped on the floor near the raoring log file in the ingle nook f
+ireplace";

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In reply to Problem seeing multiline text in Excel cells by merrymonk

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