ExcelBanter - Working Between Excell 2003 & 2007

Widen the column.

My bet is that the cell contained a date--and you used your system's short date
for the format (maybe m/d/yy).
If I open a workbook that uses the short date format, then xl will work with
windows to use my short date format, too. Since I use mm/dd/yyyy (leading 0's
and 4 digit year), I'll have to widen the column to see the date--or make the
font smaller.

If this doesn't help, then these are the things I know that cause the user to
see ###'s:

It could mean a few things.

1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.

Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.

2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative

Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).

If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

4. You really have ###'s in that cell.

Clean up that cell.

5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.

Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.

Val wrote:

I sent a 2003 file to a co-worker using 2007, via outlook, and some of the
text showed up as ######### in one of the cells. And it prints the same way.
How can I fix this?
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue
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Dave Peterson