pound signs

I have a cell with about 75 words in it. The cell formatting is set to word
wrap and the number format is set to text. When I exit the cell it just
displays a line of pound signs: ###########. Does anyone have any idea how I
can correct this? If I change the number format to General or Accounting, it
still displays this way. If I use any other number format it displays
correctly. Thanks.

I'd try the General format once more.



awh wrote:
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> I have a cell with about 75 words in it. The cell formatting is set to word
> wrap and the number format is set to text. When I exit the cell it just
> displays a line of pound signs: ###########. Does anyone have any idea how I
> can correct this? If I change the number format to General or Accounting, it
> still displays this way. If I use any other number format it displays
> correctly. Thanks.

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Dave Peterson

A previous post by Dave Peterson.

It could mean a few things.


1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.


Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.


2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative


Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).


If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)


3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.


Format the cell as general.


4. You really have ###'s in that cell.


Clean up that cell.


5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.


Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.


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HTH

Bob Phillips

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> I have a cell with about 75 words in it. The cell formatting is set to
word
> wrap and the number format is set to text. When I exit the cell it just
> displays a line of pound signs: ###########. Does anyone have any idea how
I
> can correct this? If I change the number format to General or Accounting,
it
> still displays this way. If I use any other number format it displays
> correctly. Thanks.