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Default Can I filter for "number of characters in a cell"?

The easiest way to do this is to insert a column next to the test data
and use the formula =LEN(A1)1000 . This will return TRUE or FALSE for
each cell. Filter on the TRUE values of this column.

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:39:05 -0800, suestew
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I want to filter all the cells that have more than 1000 characters.



 
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