Hi

I am using Excel 2003. I have a column in which I am entering text. I want
to make sure that I do not enter more than 50 characters. I was hoping I
could do this with conditional formatting by changing the background color of
a cell if its text exceeds the maximum length.

I am able to do this once cell at a time by using the following formulas as
my formatting criteria:

Len(C1)50
Len(C2)50
Len(C3)50
.....
Len(Cn)50

Is there a way that rather than entering these formulas one cell at a time,
that I can enter it once for the column as a whole so that for every cell in
that column, my conditional formatting will be applied if the length of the
text in that particular cell exceeds the maximum length?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul


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Paul Kraemer