Excel Help on "limits" or "specifications" reveals that Excel will allow
32,767 characters to be entered in a cell.
However, it goes on to state that "only 1024 characters will be visible or can
be printed"
To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate
spots, about every 200 characters..
The ALT + ENTER forces a line-feed and expands the 1024 limit.
How far is not really known. Just experiment.
.........From Dave Peterson..........
I put this formula in A1:
="xxx"& REPT(REPT("asdf ",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy"
And adjusted the columnwidth, rowheight and font size and I got about 7300
characters to print ok.
.........End Dave P.................
Failing that, use a Text Box to store the text or MS Word which is a word
processing application, unlike Excel which is not.
Gord Dibben Excel MVP
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:45:25 -0700, "RP2chil"
wrote:
Hi, I am working on a legal document and our client has requested that we use
this particular worksheet for a particular data.
I'm trying to copy/paste about 3-4 paragraphs of data into one cell, and I
have minimized the font, stretched the row and column, however, I still get
text not appearing in the cell. The amoutn of characters in this particular
cell are possibly around 1,500 range.. I know this is so counterproductive,
however, I do have to stick with Excel program.
Thanks.
I'm not proficient with functions or anything, so if your response is with
functions, etc. can you please be specific :-).. Thanks much.
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