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November 30th, 2006, 03:43 PM
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Character count within a cell
How many characters are allowed within one cell? I found a way to count words
but is there a way to count characters? 
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December 1st, 2006, 01:32 AM
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Character count within a cell
LEN includes spaces but may not be a problem for you.
More info on "how many characters are allowed" Excel Help on "limits" or "specifications" reveals that Excel will allow 32,767 characters to be entered in a cell. However, it goes on to state that "only 1024 characters will be visible or can be printed" To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate spots, about every 100 characters.. The ALT + ENTER forces a line-feed and expands the 1024 limit. How far is not really known. Just experiment. .........From Dave Peterson.......... I put this formula in A1: ="xxx"& REPT(REPT("asdf ",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy" And adjusted the columnwidth, rowheight and font size and I got about 7300 characters to print ok. .........End Dave P................. Failing that, use a Text Box to store the text or MS Word which is a word processing application, unlike Excel which is not. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:01:00 -0800, Mhunter wrote: Thank you! "Gary''s Student" wrote: Thousands of characters =LEN(A1) will display the number of characters in A1 -- Gary's Student "Mhunter" wrote: How many characters are allowed within one cell? I found a way to count words but is there a way to count characters? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
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December 1st, 2006, 10:37 AM
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Character count within a cell
Thank you Gord, good information.
-- Gary's Student "Gord Dibben" wrote: LEN includes spaces but may not be a problem for you. More info on "how many characters are allowed" Excel Help on "limits" or "specifications" reveals that Excel will allow 32,767 characters to be entered in a cell. However, it goes on to state that "only 1024 characters will be visible or can be printed" To work around this limitation, stick a few ALT + ENTERs in at appropriate spots, about every 100 characters.. The ALT + ENTER forces a line-feed and expands the 1024 limit. How far is not really known. Just experiment. .........From Dave Peterson.......... I put this formula in A1: ="xxx"& REPT(REPT("asdf ",25)&CHAR(10),58)&"yyy" And adjusted the columnwidth, rowheight and font size and I got about 7300 characters to print ok. .........End Dave P................. Failing that, use a Text Box to store the text or MS Word which is a word processing application, unlike Excel which is not. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:01:00 -0800, Mhunter wrote: Thank you! "Gary''s Student" wrote: Thousands of characters =LEN(A1) will display the number of characters in A1 -- Gary's Student "Mhunter" wrote: How many characters are allowed within one cell? I found a way to count words but is there a way to count characters? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
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