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Alex F Alex F is offline
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Default Getting ### (hash) symbols in text cell instead of text

just expand the cell

"Barry" wrote:

I am entering text in a cell formatted as text and instead of seeing the text
in the cell when I hit return, all I see is a row of hash symbols ###########

The text is not long - about 35 words and doesn't have any odd characters
other than /

If I double click on the cell I can see the text in the cell (as soon as I
click off the cell it turns back into the hashes.

When I click on the cell I can see the text up on the field on the tool bar.

What gives?

Thanks
Barry