James

As Julie has pointed out.......

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 Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:39:44 +0100, "James H" <jam3s.h&m@baeeesystemsdotcom
wrote:

"JulieD" wrote in message
...
Hi James

from Help - "Excel Specifications and Limits"

Julie,

Thanks very much for your assistance - I wish I spent more time searching
the help rather that playing now :-)

Cheers,

James.