Excel has trouble displaying values in cells formatted as text when the length
of the string is between 255 and 1024 characters.

James Silverton wrote:
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I'm a bit puzzled because I did an experiment with text wider
than the cells. It was cut off where there was text in the
second column but otherwise spilled into it. I am using Excel
2002.
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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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Dave Peterson