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Default filter in text

when I use "contains" to filter the text data,I can not get the data that I
want, is there any limit for the text length? the text in cells are longer
than 256 characters.

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If the search text is located after the 255th character in the cell, it
won't be found. There's a workaround he

http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter02.html#String


Robin wrote:
when I use "contains" to filter the text data,I can not get the data that I
want, is there any limit for the text length? the text in cells are longer
than 256 characters.



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