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Contents visible in cell
Hi all,
Puzzle! XL 2000 - Re text file import A cell formatted as text containing <255 chars displays correctly A cell formatted as text containing 255 chars and <1025 chars displays ####### A cell formatted as text containing 1024 chars displays correctly The cell was originally formatted as text on import to avoid losing leading zeros and the contents of cells over 255 chars If the cell is re-formatted as general after the import is seems to display correctly, however I havn't tested saving or copying the file. Do I conclude that I should set the cell to text on import and then re- format as general afterwards? Any thoughts Regards Kieran |
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Contents visible in cell
If you have numbers in that field that need to keep their leading 0's, then yep.
But be careful. If you change the whole column back to General, then the next change you make to one of those numeric cells with the leading 0's will not make you happy. Kieran H wrote: Hi all, Puzzle! XL 2000 - Re text file import A cell formatted as text containing <255 chars displays correctly A cell formatted as text containing 255 chars and <1025 chars displays ####### A cell formatted as text containing 1024 chars displays correctly The cell was originally formatted as text on import to avoid losing leading zeros and the contents of cells over 255 chars If the cell is re-formatted as general after the import is seems to display correctly, however I havn't tested saving or copying the file. Do I conclude that I should set the cell to text on import and then re- format as general afterwards? Any thoughts Regards Kieran -- Dave Peterson |
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