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Gord Dibben
 
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Default Excel - Change cell display limitations

To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate
spots, about every 100 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 Tue, 2 May 2006 06:47:02 -0700, AmnNkD
wrote:

Does anyone know if there is any way to expland the limitations set to
display the number of characters in a cell. I understand that the cell can
contain over 32,000 characters but it only displays barely over 1,000. Can
this be changed? Any assistance would be appreciated.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP