Hi a colleague of mine is trying to fit a lot of text into a cell however
once he reaches acertain point the text dissapears from the cell and is
replaced with ####. The text is still visable within the formula bar. I
have tried increasing the size of the column and row and selected the autofit
function, wrapped text etc. but it still keeps happening. I have no idea
where to look next. Any advice??
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Nat

Tell him to format the cell as General (or anything but text).

Natty wrote:

Hi a colleague of mine is trying to fit a lot of text into a cell however
once he reaches acertain point the text dissapears from the cell and is
replaced with ####. The text is still visable within the formula bar. I
have tried increasing the size of the column and row and selected the autofit
function, wrapped text etc. but it still keeps happening. I have no idea
where to look next. Any advice??
--
Nat

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Dave Peterson

Nat

### Occurs when a column is not wide enough, or a negative date or
time is used. Check for the text being written in the cell, is it
generating an answer falls in the above two categories.

Aqib Rizvi

Actually, there are a few more things that can cause this:

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.

Aqib Rizvi wrote:

Nat

### Occurs when a column is not wide enough, or a negative date or
time is used. Check for the text being written in the cell, is it
generating an answer falls in the above two categories.

Aqib Rizvi

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Dave Peterson