Limit In Conditional Format
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I'm using Excel 2002 and wanted to create a conditional form to check that certain control characters were not present in data to be uploaded to a database. I was using the OR function, so that I was not restricted by the normal nested IF issue, in conjunction with LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"*","")) as the test. OR should take up to 30 tests (according to Help) but I have found that in entering this in the Conditional Formatting there appears to a limit of 254 characters (so I can only get 7. Can anyone confirm that this is the case and if it has changed in later versions of Excel? Is there an alternative test which does not use so many characters? Thanks G |
Limit In Conditional Format
How about using helper cells, evaluate part in another cell and use that to
reduce the number of characters. OR maybe a different approach, what are the tests? -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Constantly Amazed" wrote in message ... Hi I'm using Excel 2002 and wanted to create a conditional form to check that certain control characters were not present in data to be uploaded to a database. I was using the OR function, so that I was not restricted by the normal nested IF issue, in conjunction with LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"*","")) as the test. OR should take up to 30 tests (according to Help) but I have found that in entering this in the Conditional Formatting there appears to a limit of 254 characters (so I can only get 7. Can anyone confirm that this is the case and if it has changed in later versions of Excel? Is there an alternative test which does not use so many characters? Thanks G |
Limit In Conditional Format
You did not post the rest of your formula, leaving really nothing to work
with! If you post the formula itself, I am sure someone wil be able to assist! -- Hth Kassie Kasselman Change xxx to hotmail "Constantly Amazed" wrote: Hi I'm using Excel 2002 and wanted to create a conditional form to check that certain control characters were not present in data to be uploaded to a database. I was using the OR function, so that I was not restricted by the normal nested IF issue, in conjunction with LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"*","")) as the test. OR should take up to 30 tests (according to Help) but I have found that in entering this in the Conditional Formatting there appears to a limit of 254 characters (so I can only get 7. Can anyone confirm that this is the case and if it has changed in later versions of Excel? Is there an alternative test which does not use so many characters? Thanks G |
Limit In Conditional Format
Thanks for the response. I haven't been given all the tests so far so it was
more a matter of exploring the possibilities. I think the helper scells could assist but if I run into any further difficulties when developing the final version I'll post then. G "Bob Phillips" wrote: How about using helper cells, evaluate part in another cell and use that to reduce the number of characters. OR maybe a different approach, what are the tests? -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Constantly Amazed" wrote in message ... Hi I'm using Excel 2002 and wanted to create a conditional form to check that certain control characters were not present in data to be uploaded to a database. I was using the OR function, so that I was not restricted by the normal nested IF issue, in conjunction with LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"*","")) as the test. OR should take up to 30 tests (according to Help) but I have found that in entering this in the Conditional Formatting there appears to a limit of 254 characters (so I can only get 7. Can anyone confirm that this is the case and if it has changed in later versions of Excel? Is there an alternative test which does not use so many characters? Thanks G |
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