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    printing limitation

    Hi

    i am printing a spreadsheet in excel 2003 and one cell in it has more than 1024 characters ,in printout cell gets truncated after 1024 characters ,is it a limitation of excel or is there any workaround for this issue.

    Thanks
    bo

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    Gord Dibben
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    Re: printing limitation

    bo

    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, 6 Oct 2005 11:21:14 -0500, ar8824
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    >
    >Hi
    >
    >i am printing a spreadsheet in excel 2003 and one cell in it has more
    >than 1024 characters ,in printout cell gets truncated after 1024
    >characters ,is it a limitation of excel or is there any workaround for
    >this issue.
    >
    >Thanks
    >bo



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