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Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

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Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren



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Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

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Sharad

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Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren




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What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
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Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
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Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren






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Hi Tom and thanks for your support.

Has soon as put the text between the quotes, the text it self goes to the
next line and the text become red with one quote at the end, and
«Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""» stay the same.

There is no error message, nothing to tell you what wrong.

I hope that this would give you a hint.

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
...
Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
...
Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren








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It think you would just need to break it into pieces. This is apparently a
limitation of the editor in the VBE.

To demo from the immediate window:

sStr = "abcd" & _
"efgh" & _
"ijkl" & _
"mnop" & _
"qrstuvwxyz"
? sStr
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Also, I don't really know what the line limit in the editor is, so that may
not be the case. If you have double quotes embedded in your string, those
could be causeing the problem. For example if I had a string

abcdef"ghijk

and I put it between "" it would cause a problem

double quotes in string must be double quoted

"abcdef""ghijk"

for example.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Ren" wrote in message
...
Hi Tom and thanks for your support.

Has soon as put the text between the quotes, the text it self goes to the
next line and the text become red with one quote at the end, and
«Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""» stay the same.

There is no error message, nothing to tell you what wrong.

I hope that this would give you a hint.

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the

error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
...
Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells

that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
...
Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the

maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren








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Thanks Tom I'll give it a shot and let you know what happen.

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

It think you would just need to break it into pieces. This is apparently a
limitation of the editor in the VBE.

To demo from the immediate window:

sStr = "abcd" & _
"efgh" & _
"ijkl" & _
"mnop" & _
"qrstuvwxyz"
? sStr
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Also, I don't really know what the line limit in the editor is, so that may
not be the case. If you have double quotes embedded in your string, those
could be causeing the problem. For example if I had a string

abcdef"ghijk

and I put it between "" it would cause a problem

double quotes in string must be double quoted

"abcdef""ghijk"

for example.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Ren" wrote in message
...
Hi Tom and thanks for your support.

Has soon as put the text between the quotes, the text it self goes to the
next line and the text become red with one quote at the end, and
«Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""» stay the same.

There is no error message, nothing to tell you what wrong.

I hope that this would give you a hint.

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the

error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
...
Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells

that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
...
Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the

maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren









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To confirm (I mean for you) what Tom posted,
it seems to be the limitation of the editor.
In Excel 2003 the editor can take max. of 1022 characters in a single line.
And that including number of characters in the variable + number of spaces
+ the "=" sign.
So no wonder with the Sheet9. ....etc = and the quote marks it allows you
only 990 character of the actual string.

As Tom suggested you need to cut the line with & _
Now & _ takes another 4 characters (including a space before '&' ). So
instead of 990 character you assing
only 986 characters in the first line and 1016 character from next line
onward (1022 minus 4 for & _ + 2 for the quote marks)

Sharad

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
...
It think you would just need to break it into pieces. This is apparently
a
limitation of the editor in the VBE.

To demo from the immediate window:

sStr = "abcd" & _
"efgh" & _
"ijkl" & _
"mnop" & _
"qrstuvwxyz"
? sStr
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Also, I don't really know what the line limit in the editor is, so that
may
not be the case. If you have double quotes embedded in your string, those
could be causeing the problem. For example if I had a string

abcdef"ghijk

and I put it between "" it would cause a problem

double quotes in string must be double quoted

"abcdef""ghijk"

for example.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Ren" wrote in message
...
Hi Tom and thanks for your support.

Has soon as put the text between the quotes, the text it self goes to the
next line and the text become red with one quote at the end, and
«Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""» stay the same.

There is no error message, nothing to tell you what wrong.

I hope that this would give you a hint.

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the

error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
...
Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells

that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
...
Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the

maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren










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Hi Tom

The same thing happened.

I seperated the paragraph in three parts, the first two no problem, but the
third went red just like before. When I removed the right amount of text then
it works fine.

Ren

"Ren" wrote:

Thanks Tom I'll give it a shot and let you know what happen.

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

It think you would just need to break it into pieces. This is apparently a
limitation of the editor in the VBE.

To demo from the immediate window:

sStr = "abcd" & _
"efgh" & _
"ijkl" & _
"mnop" & _
"qrstuvwxyz"
? sStr
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Also, I don't really know what the line limit in the editor is, so that may
not be the case. If you have double quotes embedded in your string, those
could be causeing the problem. For example if I had a string

abcdef"ghijk

and I put it between "" it would cause a problem

double quotes in string must be double quoted

"abcdef""ghijk"

for example.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Ren" wrote in message
...
Hi Tom and thanks for your support.

Has soon as put the text between the quotes, the text it self goes to the
next line and the text become red with one quote at the end, and
«Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""» stay the same.

There is no error message, nothing to tell you what wrong.

I hope that this would give you a hint.

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the

error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
...
Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells

that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
...
Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the

maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren









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A GREAT SUPER THANKS GUYS!!!

It works

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

To confirm (I mean for you) what Tom posted,
it seems to be the limitation of the editor.
In Excel 2003 the editor can take max. of 1022 characters in a single line.
And that including number of characters in the variable + number of spaces
+ the "=" sign.
So no wonder with the Sheet9. ....etc = and the quote marks it allows you
only 990 character of the actual string.

As Tom suggested you need to cut the line with & _
Now & _ takes another 4 characters (including a space before '&' ). So
instead of 990 character you assing
only 986 characters in the first line and 1016 character from next line
onward (1022 minus 4 for & _ + 2 for the quote marks)

Sharad

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
...
It think you would just need to break it into pieces. This is apparently
a
limitation of the editor in the VBE.

To demo from the immediate window:

sStr = "abcd" & _
"efgh" & _
"ijkl" & _
"mnop" & _
"qrstuvwxyz"
? sStr
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Also, I don't really know what the line limit in the editor is, so that
may
not be the case. If you have double quotes embedded in your string, those
could be causeing the problem. For example if I had a string

abcdef"ghijk

and I put it between "" it would cause a problem

double quotes in string must be double quoted

"abcdef""ghijk"

for example.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Ren" wrote in message
...
Hi Tom and thanks for your support.

Has soon as put the text between the quotes, the text it self goes to the
next line and the text become red with one quote at the end, and
«Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""» stay the same.

There is no error message, nothing to tell you what wrong.

I hope that this would give you a hint.

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What happens when you exceed 990. Do you get an error? What is the

error -
please be more descriptive.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Ren" wrote in message
...
Thanks Sharad

I got this LABEL, that when you click on it drops a text in a cells

that I
merged.

Something like this:

Private Sub Label17_Click()
Sheet9.Range("A7").Value = ""
End Sub

When I try to put the text between the quotes, the maximum number of
characters that it lets me is 990.

Any suggestions????

Again thanks

Cheers

Ren

"Sharad Naik" wrote:

2,147,483,647

Sharad

"Ren" wrote in message
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Happy New Year to All

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what is the

maximum
number of characters one could place in a textbox.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ren











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