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    How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    Hello,

    I want to hide the pound sign (#) in my excel sheet Im getting this symbol it saying (dates and times that are negative or too large to display ######.

    Thank you.

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    Re: How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    What formula are you using ?

    Or is this VBA macro ?

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    Re: How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    This formula is from one of the forum guru MOD(C14-B14,1)-"8:00".

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    Re: How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    What values are in C14 and B14 ?

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    Re: How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    Custom-format the cell as h:mm;; to suppress display of values <= 0
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    Re: How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    Thank you shg,

    it works like magic

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    Re: How to Hide Pound sign (#####)

    You're welcome.

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