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Bernard Liengme Bernard Liengme is offline
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Default Why does my text appear as pound signs

Why are you trying to put so much text into one cell?
Excel is not a word processing package. Just put it in a text box.
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I merged several cells in order to type a paragraph of text, (350
characters). When I concluded, the text appears as "#############...####"

I haven't done anything that I don't regularly do except I started with
some
one elses file.

This is the text I typed:

"This is the packing Gland. The listed P/N's are pre-existing from the
Bleed-Air Project.

The materials are for High Temp. Application and they may need to be
changed
for this project. If the relative cost is and the availability of
materials
are insignificant. and the corosion-resistance is acceptable we should
use
the parts already in our system."

The cell is formated as text. I have turned on Wrap Text.

Hopefully, someone can give me a clue.

Darrell