Wrong, Matt! LEN does not return 1 for an empty or blank cell.
For either a completely empty cell or a cell with the empty string ="", LEN
returns zero.
If you are seeing a LEN of 1, you do not have a blank or empty cell; you
have a character in there.
You can see which character with =CODE(A1). If it returns 32, you have a
space, if it returns 160, you have a non-breaking space.
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David Biddulph

matt hinkle wrote:
Hi Biff!
using the =len(a1) works fine unless the cell is empty/blank; it
returns count of 1 for blank cell--how do I account for these? I
assume it would be an if statement of some kind??



T. Valko wrote:

How to count number of characters in xl cell for publisher merge
31-Aug-08

Use the LEN (Length) function:

=LEN(A1)


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

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On Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:19 PM
msloel wrote:

How to count number of characters in xl cell for publisher merge
I am doing a catalog merge in publisher. Data is in XL. Publisher has
255
character limit on merged info. How do I count the characters before I
execute the merge?

On Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:26 PM
T. Valko wrote:

How to count number of characters in xl cell for publisher merge
Use the LEN (Length) function:

=LEN(A1)