255 is the maximum width of a column and I don't know of a limit of 255
placed on linked cells. As far as the display of data is concerned, Excel
limits the number of characters per cell to a maximum of 32,737, however, it
will only display the first 1,024 characters.

As long as there's is nothing to the right of you cell, you should see a
maximum of 1,024 characters per cell, linked or not.

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Kevin Backmann


"Chuck Hague" wrote:

Currently use Excell 2003 - SP2, to document weekly status reports from about
a dozen team mates. The consolidating spreadsheet, with links to all the
others, will only display the first 255 characters of a linked cell. Report
spreadsheets (data entry point) display 2 or 3 times that many characters
without ptoblem.

Is the 255 characters for "linked cells" an absolute limit or is there a way
to display more characters in a cell linked to another spreadsheet.

(Note: all spreadsheets stored in the same folder on a network file server)

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences,
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C. B. Hague
Orlando, Fl