Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

Try changing the format of the cell from Text to General.

Eric

"pmetnc" wrote:

Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

How does that help when trying to use a custom format?

"EricG" wrote:

Try changing the format of the cell from Text to General.

Eric

"pmetnc" wrote:

Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

I think you're out of luck. I couldn't do it (well, in xl2003).

If that string is between 255 and 1024 characters, then I get the ### symbols.

It's not really the line wrapping that's causing the trouble.

pmetnc wrote:

Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

--

Dave Peterson

ps. Have you thought of using a table in MSWord?

They have this kind of leader for tabs (I think) and I think that you could do
this kind of thing with trailers, too. (But I haven't used this feature in a
long time.)

pmetnc wrote:

Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

--

Dave Peterson

Where does one go to report a bug in Excel?

ps. It has to be done in Excel.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I think you're out of luck. I couldn't do it (well, in xl2003).

If that string is between 255 and 1024 characters, then I get the ### symbols.

It's not really the line wrapping that's causing the trouble.

ps. Have you thought of using a table in MSWord?

They have this kind of leader for tabs (I think) and I think that you could do
this kind of thing with trailers, too. (But I haven't used this feature in a
long time.)

pmetnc wrote:

Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

--

Dave Peterson
.

I'm sure that there's a link on the microsoft.com somewhere.

But MS has known about the length of the string and the cell formatted as text
causing the ###'s to appear since xl97.

pmetnc wrote:

Where does one go to report a bug in Excel?

ps. It has to be done in Excel.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I think you're out of luck. I couldn't do it (well, in xl2003).

If that string is between 255 and 1024 characters, then I get the ### symbols.

It's not really the line wrapping that's causing the trouble.

ps. Have you thought of using a table in MSWord?

They have this kind of leader for tabs (I think) and I think that you could do
this kind of thing with trailers, too. (But I haven't used this feature in a
long time.)

pmetnc wrote:

Is there any way to make this format work with Wrap Text turned on? Whenever
the text is wide enough to need to be wrapped, I always get
#######################.

--

Dave Peterson
.


--

Dave Peterson

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'm sure that there's a link on the microsoft.com somewhere.

But MS has known about the length of the string and the cell formatted as text
causing the ###'s to appear since xl97.

pmetnc wrote:

Where does one go to report a bug in Excel?

ps. It has to be done in Excel.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I think you're out of luck. I couldn't do it (well, in xl2003).

If that string is between 255 and 1024 characters, then I get the ### symbols.

It's not really the line wrapping that's causing the trouble.

ps. Have you thought of using a table in MSWord?

The strings I'm working with are far less than 255 characters. Are you
saying it only happens to you with strings over 255 characters?

I'm saying that if you format a cell as text and have a string that's between
255 and 1024 characters long, you'll see ####'s.

How long is the text in that cell? In fact, what's the string in the cell that
causes the problem?

How wide is the column? Where do the line breaks occur? Are they natural line
breaks or did you use alt-enters to force new lines?



pmetnc wrote:

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'm sure that there's a link on the microsoft.com somewhere.

But MS has known about the length of the string and the cell formatted as text
causing the ###'s to appear since xl97.

pmetnc wrote:

Where does one go to report a bug in Excel?

ps. It has to be done in Excel.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I think you're out of luck. I couldn't do it (well, in xl2003).

If that string is between 255 and 1024 characters, then I get the ### symbols.

It's not really the line wrapping that's causing the trouble.

ps. Have you thought of using a table in MSWord?

The strings I'm working with are far less than 255 characters. Are you
saying it only happens to you with strings over 255 characters?

--

Dave Peterson