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# signs where there shouldn't be....
I have now. I feel stupid. Thanks. (Why the hell does it do that? In some of
my other spreadsheets, it just shrinks the font so that it fits.... oh well.) "Ken Wright" wrote: Have you tried widening the column? -- Regards Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03 ------------------------------Â*------------------------------Â*---------------- It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-) ------------------------------Â*------------------------------Â*---------------- "dramajuana" wrote in message ... Oh, and I have another date column right next to this one, and it has no problem showing the dates correctly. "dramajuana" wrote: I have a simple spreadsheet that I've been building on for the past couple months, and I have a column with dates in it. It's formatted to do the date as 14-Aug (so that I can enter "8/14" and it changes it for me), but over the past few days, it's decided to display ##### instead of 14-Aug. When you double click the darn thing, it shows the date as 8/14/2006 like it always has, but everything I've tried won't make the pound signs go away when I'm just viewing the document. Any ideas? By the way, the document has 238 rows and counting, but I don't think the length should effect it.... |
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# signs where there shouldn't be....
"shrink to fit" is an option found in the Alignment Tab of Format Cells.
Normally text will "run over" into the next cell (if empty), but numbers and dates are different; if there is not enough room, it displays pound signs instead. I assume this is because the data could easily be misinterpreted. Also, it is easy to spot that a word has been cut in half, but not a number. :) "dramajuana" wrote: I have now. I feel stupid. Thanks. (Why the hell does it do that? In some of my other spreadsheets, it just shrinks the font so that it fits.... oh well.) "Ken Wright" wrote: Have you tried widening the column? -- Regards Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03 ------------------------------Â*------------------------------Â*---------------- It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-) ------------------------------Â*------------------------------Â*---------------- "dramajuana" wrote in message ... Oh, and I have another date column right next to this one, and it has no problem showing the dates correctly. "dramajuana" wrote: I have a simple spreadsheet that I've been building on for the past couple months, and I have a column with dates in it. It's formatted to do the date as 14-Aug (so that I can enter "8/14" and it changes it for me), but over the past few days, it's decided to display ##### instead of 14-Aug. When you double click the darn thing, it shows the date as 8/14/2006 like it always has, but everything I've tried won't make the pound signs go away when I'm just viewing the document. Any ideas? By the way, the document has 238 rows and counting, but I don't think the length should effect it.... |
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