Hi Beryl

Will a 'Soft Return' do the trick?

To do a 'Soft Return' click where you want to insert your line break, hold
down the Shift key and press Enter. This will break the line into 2 lines
but keep it as one paragraph. This trick works in almost every program.

Is this what you wanted to know Beryl?

Cheers
-SuperPresentationMan

"Our PowerPoint Hero"
www.SuperPresentationMan.com

Hi,

You can not do it manually, as Echo points out. But you can do it with code.

To test this open a new ppt file and insert a graph.
Open the graphs Datasheet and edit the axis labels placing a | character
where you want the label to wrap.
The exit from msgraph and use this code to insert a Linefeed.

'----------------------------------------
Sub WrapAxisLabels()

    Dim lngCol As Long

' change slide and shape references.

    With ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(3). _
            OLEFormat.Object.Application.datasheet
        ' check 1st row for labels
        lngCol = 2
        Do While .Cells(1, lngCol) <> ""
            .Cells(1, lngCol) = Replace(.Cells(1, lngCol), "|", vbLf)
            lngCol = lngCol + 1
        Loop

' Use this if axis labels are in the 1st Row
'        lngRow = 2
'        Do While .Cells(lngRow, 1) <> ""
'            .Cells(lngRow,1) = Replace(.Cells(lngRow, 1), "|", vbLf)
'            lngRow = lngRow + 1
'        Loop

    End With

End Sub

Cheers
Andy