OK, I'm not new to Excel, just 07. And this is killing me. I have a user who
uses Excel to track discussions of phone interviews, so she's using one cell
in which to type her comments. MOST of the time, the text is fine. Randomly,
any given cell will suddenly appear as all pound signs. Thes eare the things
I have tried and failed to prove consistent fixes:

1 - number of characters is irrelevant, happens on long and short text
2 - I make sure there is no hard return at end of text
3 - copy /past into plain text and bring back (sometimes works, sometimes not)
4 - changed font across entire tab sheet. nada
5 - remove empty space AND period at end of her typing. It worked once then
on today's two did nothing for me.

I have only seen this happen when text is exported from a SQL dbase and left
funky symbols in with the characters. But that was also importing into 03, so
this 07 newly typed in freak has me stumped.