Hi:

I have a list of customer complaints that is kept daily. We have all
the customer's information on this spreadsheet. When there is a
complaint we enter the information in a cell. Sometimes this is fairly
long to explain the problem. I have the cell set for word wrap but
lately we cannot see all the information when that cell is highlighted.
All the text appears in the 'formula' bar area but you cannot see
everything in the actual cell. I thought word wrap would expand the
cell to the entire amount of text. Is there a limit on how much can be
entered into one cell?

Thanks,
Deb


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According to the Excel 2000 help info

Length of cell contents (text) 32,767 characters. Only 1,024 display in a
cell; all 32,767 display in the formula bar


"dah" wrote:


Hi:

I have a list of customer complaints that is kept daily. We have all
the customer's information on this spreadsheet. When there is a
complaint we enter the information in a cell. Sometimes this is fairly
long to explain the problem. I have the cell set for word wrap but
lately we cannot see all the information when that cell is highlighted.
All the text appears in the 'formula' bar area but you cannot see
everything in the actual cell. I thought word wrap would expand the
cell to the entire amount of text. Is there a limit on how much can be
entered into one cell?

Thanks,
Deb


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Deb

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, about every 100 characters..

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 or MS Word which is a word
processing application, unlike Excel which is not.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:49:07 -0600, dah
wrote:


Hi:

I have a list of customer complaints that is kept daily. We have all
the customer's information on this spreadsheet. When there is a
complaint we enter the information in a cell. Sometimes this is fairly
long to explain the problem. I have the cell set for word wrap but
lately we cannot see all the information when that cell is highlighted.
All the text appears in the 'formula' bar area but you cannot see
everything in the actual cell. I thought word wrap would expand the
cell to the entire amount of text. Is there a limit on how much can be
entered into one cell?

Thanks,
Deb