Thanks, Bob, for your help. Changing the cell format from text to general
actually solved the problem.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

It means that the value is too great to display, so you can widen the
column, or that it is not able to display it, negative time for instance.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"sherroc" wrote in message
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Why do I see ###### in a cell rather than the text that is there. The
text
shows up in the line across the top but not in the cell itself.