By default, the cell expands, like you mention.
Unless...
You force the cell to a certain hight by clicking on the row on the left, choose Row hight (Rijhoogte in Dutch):
Example:
This
becomes:
How to save the time to set all rows individually
Although I couldn't find any setting to change the default behaviour for cells/rows, you can easily work around:
- In a new document, before changing cells etc, click in the top/left blank square, where rows/columns cross each other, to select all cells/rows.
- Right- click on the left of first row, Choose Row hight, simply press return.
- Again, while all cells/rows are selected, right- click on the left of first row, choose Format > Cells.. > Alignment, set to wrap.
Now the document will behave like you want, for all cells in all rows.