Tom,

Thanks!

But!!! Any idea of what is going on here?
Why the ###'s in the first place?
And what's magic about 256 to 1024?

Curious minds are still curious...

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sb
"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Good information. Did not examine the behavior that closely.

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"steve" wrote in message
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Tom,

Working with Excel97 I just put 6,000 characters into a cell and didn't
get
the ### (formatted as General or Text). Of course not everything was
displayed.

Did find that when formatted as Text the ### showed up when
the length was 256 to 1024 characters. Any less or any more and it
displayed correctly. Now that is what I call strange!!!

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sb
"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Don't format the cell as Text. Format it as General and I believe it
will
remove the ### and wrap as you wish. I think you get this behavior
when
it
is formatted as text and the length exceeds 255 characters.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"L Buchy" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet with a cell formatted as text with word wrap
turned
on.
It appears to have some sort of limit as ### are being displayed
even
if
cell is made larger in size??

Is there some kind of text length maximum in Excel?? Or can you
change
this
some how?

Your help would be greatly appreciated,
Thx.