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I'm having a problem with text showing as ############# on a co-workers
system but properly appears on mine. I checked the obvious, merge cells, wrap
text, cell format, font size, but cannot find the problem. Any suggestions?

column width?

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Bob Phillips

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"Harley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm having a problem with text showing as ############# on a co-workers
> system but properly appears on mine. I checked the obvious, merge cells,
wrap
> text, cell format, font size, but cannot find the problem. Any
suggestions?

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.

Harley wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem with text showing as ############# on a co-workers
> system but properly appears on mine. I checked the obvious, merge cells, wrap
> text, cell format, font size, but cannot find the problem. Any suggestions?

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Dave Peterson

Thank you all for your input, the problem has been solved. I don't know why,
but changing the cell format from text to special fixed it.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> 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.
>
> Harley wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a problem with text showing as ############# on a co-workers
> > system but properly appears on mine. I checked the obvious, merge cells, wrap
> > text, cell format, font size, but cannot find the problem. Any suggestions?
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>

Formatting to General would be a more usual solution.

Excel has trouble displaying strings between 255 characters and 1024 characters
in cells that are formatted as Text.

(#3 on that list of "a few things".)

Harley wrote:
>
> Thank you all for your input, the problem has been solved. I don't know why,
> but changing the cell format from text to special fixed it.
>
> "Dave Peterson" wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Harley wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with text showing as ############# on a co-workers
> > > system but properly appears on mine. I checked the obvious, merge cells, wrap
> > > text, cell format, font size, but cannot find the problem. Any suggestions?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dave Peterson
> >

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Dave Peterson