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sixtyseven67

Visible cell characters
 
Can I increase the # of characters that are visible in a cell?

Gord Dibben

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Excel Help on "limits" or "specifications" reveals that Excel will allow
32,767 characters to be entered in a cell.

However, it goes on to state that "only 1024 characters will be visible or can
be printed"

To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate
spots.

The ALT + ENTER forces a line-feed and expands the 1024 limit.

How far is not really known. Just experiment.

.........From Dave Peterson..........

I put this formula in A1:
="xxx"& REPT(REPT("asdf ",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy"

And adjusted the columnwidth, rowheight and font size and I got about 7300
characters to print ok.

.........End Dave P.................

Failing that, use a Text Box to store the text.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:57:03 -0800, sixtyseven67
wrote:

Can I increase the # of characters that are visible in a cell?




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