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Default Text cell w/wrap text shows #

A cell formatted as text, with 388 characters in it, shows as a line of #
instead of the text. You can see the text in the formula bar.

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Default Text cell w/wrap text shows #

Try formatting that cell as General.

DLFiumara wrote:

A cell formatted as text, with 388 characters in it, shows as a line of #
instead of the text. You can see the text in the formula bar.

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