Text not all displaying in a cell, what is max that can be inserted?
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A general question, I am typing larger amounts of info in a single cell and it gets to a stage where it is not displayed, even when I choose "wrap text". What is the maximum size of text for a cell? Many thanks Althea |
A general rule for your general question:
Insertion of some <Alt <Enter's (manual line breaks), will increase the number of displayed characters. -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Althea" wrote in message ... Dear list A general question, I am typing larger amounts of info in a single cell and it gets to a stage where it is not displayed, even when I choose "wrap text". What is the maximum size of text for a cell? Many thanks Althea |
From Help on Specifications you will find that 32767 characters can be entered
in a cell. However, only 1024 of these will be seen or can be printed. To get around this 1024 limit follow RD's advice and sprinkle some AT + ENTER's in every 1000 chars or so. Postings have indicated that you can increase the 1024 up to several thousand. Another work-around is to use a Text Box to store the text. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Mon, 9 May 2005 11:36:28 +1200, "Althea" wrote: Dear list A general question, I am typing larger amounts of info in a single cell and it gets to a stage where it is not displayed, even when I choose "wrap text". What is the maximum size of text for a cell? Many thanks Althea |
If you look at "Specifications" in XL Help, you'll see that each cell
can contain 32767 characters, of which 1024 can be displayed. Manually inserting a linefeed (Opt-Enter) every 1024 characters will allow more to be displayed. In article , "Althea" wrote: Dear list A general question, I am typing larger amounts of info in a single cell and it gets to a stage where it is not displayed, even when I choose "wrap text". What is the maximum size of text for a cell? Many thanks Althea |
Thanks for all replies. I have looked and it comes to 1600 characters so no
wonder I'm having probs. I better chang ethe method for longer entries. Thankyou Althea |
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