validation for phone number

I want to limit the characters that the user can input in the phone number
field. Should I use conditional formatting for that?
Any help is appreciated,
Thank you, Candice

When you say "limit the characters" do you mean you want to only allow
telephone numbers, or only allow numbers?

You can format the cell (on the menu, >Edit >Cells >Special >Telephone
number) so Excel will display a string of 10 numbers in (###) ###-####
format. Will that do it for you, or are you thinking of something more?

I want to limit the number of characters the user can imput: such as to
prevent a user from inputting more then the 10 digit phone number.

"Dave O" wrote:

> When you say "limit the characters" do you mean you want to only allow
> telephone numbers, or only allow numbers?
>
> You can format the cell (on the menu, >Edit >Cells >Special >Telephone
> number) so Excel will display a string of 10 numbers in (###) ###-####
> format. Will that do it for you, or are you thinking of something more?
>
>

Can you stop them after they hit enter? (They might have typed too many
characters, but they'll get a warning.)

If yes, then
data|validation

And tell excel that you'll accept whole numbers between 0 and 9999999999.

Format the cell as a phone number to make it look pretty.

Candice wrote:
>
> I want to limit the number of characters the user can imput: such as to
> prevent a user from inputting more then the 10 digit phone number.
>
> "Dave O" wrote:
>
> > When you say "limit the characters" do you mean you want to only allow
> > telephone numbers, or only allow numbers?
> >
> > You can format the cell (on the menu, >Edit >Cells >Special >Telephone
> > number) so Excel will display a string of 10 numbers in (###) ###-####
> > format. Will that do it for you, or are you thinking of something more?
> >
> >

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Dave Peterson