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How do I Stop the Excel Macro Recorder from Auto-Wrapping Lines of Code?

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When recording a macro in Excel (2007) the recorder will often wrap the lines of code if they get to long by using a "_" character. This is all well and good except that there is apparently a hard limit of how many times a line can be wrapped in the VBA IDE, and if the recorder exceeds that limit i…

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I don't think this is configurable in the editor. You can get a few more charactors before going over the limit by changing your tab width options however. Click the Visual Basic button in the Developer Tab in Excel. Choose the Tools-Options menu. C…

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