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I would like to show in another cell the number of characters entered into a cell while editing this cell, that means before I press the <enter> key.
I would like to show in another cell the number of characters entered into a cell while editing this cell, that means before I press the <enter> key.
Not really possible in cells. When you open a cell for editing, it suspends all other activity in the sheet until you press ENTER, at which time any calculations in other cells would proceed.
I know it's not what you asked, but you could apply a Data Validation to that cell that only allows X characters total, and if they exceed that they would get an alert message when they pressed ENTER.
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LEN(A1) will deliver the length in character count of the string in cell A1.
It recalculates like all other functions, so it can't do this "automatic update" thing, either... maybe with VBA, but... probably not.
Originally Posted by ben_hensel
Not. The OP is looking for a realtime character count like you see on online forms, but Excel "cells" are not form-like. No calcs will occur in other cells until you finish editing a cell contents...
one workaround aside from data validation is think is vba but it goes like this..
create macro to show a form with textbox with a character counter....
if done typing the characters the value could be put in the selection cell.
some like
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Thank you very much for your help. How would I have to proceed if I want to continuously (while typing) show in cell B2 what is entered in cell in A2, that means without using the textbox function?
It's not possible. Excel doesn't recognize what is in the cell until you click enter or click on another cell.
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Many thanks. Its helps to know what are the limits of Excel. I hope Microsoft can build such a function into a new Excel version.
Again, you can do this with a userform, just not an excel worksheet cell.
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abousetta
Hello all,
Do any of you know if this had been addressed in the newest version of Excel? I have the same situation where it would be a "nice to know" how many characters have been typed into a cell that has a data validation set to accept a max of 20 characters. I've read the posts here but they're no longer current (<= 07-06-2012).
Thanks in advance for any help provided.
The status is the same as far as I know. An Excel "cell" is not like a "form field" and once you start to edit a cell all focus is set on that one cell and all activity elsewhere in the workbook is suspended.
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