I am working with a Ledes file and need to make changes in Excel. But the
cells that have a lot of information turn into a bunch of pound signs when
the file is saved. How to I format the column or worksheet so that the cell
is large enough to hold all of the text without replacing the text with pound
signs?

Thank you,

Try formatting the cell as General.

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It could mean a few things.

1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.

Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.

2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative

Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).

If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

4. You really have ###'s in that cell.

Clean up that cell.

5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.

Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.


AdinaC wrote:

I am working with a Ledes file and need to make changes in Excel. But the
cells that have a lot of information turn into a bunch of pound signs when
the file is saved. How to I format the column or worksheet so that the cell
is large enough to hold all of the text without replacing the text with pound
signs?

Thank you,

--

Dave Peterson

Hi Dave,

The situation is your number 3:

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

I tried this but it did not work. It is a large amount of text,
approximately the length of one text paragraph. Is there someway to set the
column so that it includes all of the text no matter how large?

Thanks,

Adina

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Try formatting the cell as General.

====
It could mean a few things.

1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.

Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.

2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative

Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).

If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

4. You really have ###'s in that cell.

Clean up that cell.

5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.

Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.


AdinaC wrote:

I am working with a Ledes file and need to make changes in Excel. But the
cells that have a lot of information turn into a bunch of pound signs when
the file is saved. How to I format the column or worksheet so that the cell
is large enough to hold all of the text without replacing the text with pound
signs?

Thank you,

--

Dave Peterson

Try it once more. I've never seen it not work.

AdinaC wrote:

Hi Dave,

The situation is your number 3:

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

I tried this but it did not work. It is a large amount of text,
approximately the length of one text paragraph. Is there someway to set the
column so that it includes all of the text no matter how large?

Thanks,

Adina

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Try formatting the cell as General.

====
It could mean a few things.

1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.

Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.

2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative

Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).

If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

4. You really have ###'s in that cell.

Clean up that cell.

5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.

Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.


AdinaC wrote:

I am working with a Ledes file and need to make changes in Excel. But the
cells that have a lot of information turn into a bunch of pound signs when
the file is saved. How to I format the column or worksheet so that the cell
is large enough to hold all of the text without replacing the text with pound
signs?

Thank you,

--

Dave Peterson


--

Dave Peterson

Hi Dave,

You were right!!! I changed the wrong column the first time. It worked
great and has saved my staff a lot of time in what would have been thousands
of manual entries if this didn't work.

So, thank you very much for your help.

Adina

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Try it once more. I've never seen it not work.

AdinaC wrote:

Hi Dave,

The situation is your number 3:

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

I tried this but it did not work. It is a large amount of text,
approximately the length of one text paragraph. Is there someway to set the
column so that it includes all of the text no matter how large?

Thanks,

Adina

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Try formatting the cell as General.

====
It could mean a few things.

1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.

Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.

2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative

Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).

If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

4. You really have ###'s in that cell.

Clean up that cell.

5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.

Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.


AdinaC wrote:

I am working with a Ledes file and need to make changes in Excel. But the
cells that have a lot of information turn into a bunch of pound signs when
the file is saved. How to I format the column or worksheet so that the cell
is large enough to hold all of the text without replacing the text with pound
signs?

Thank you,

--

Dave Peterson


--

Dave Peterson