After typing several lines of wrap-text in large group of merged cells, the
wrap text stops and I have to manually make "enter" breaks for my data to
show up in print.

The alt-enters is the common solution to your problem.

Or were you just venting?

Nathan's Excel wrote:

After typing several lines of wrap-text in large group of merged cells, the
wrap text stops and I have to manually make "enter" breaks for my data to
show up in print.

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Dave Peterson