counting or limiting characters

G

Glenn

Hi,

Is there a way to do one of the following:

a) limit the amount of characters that a cell can contain

or, if not:

b) have a column that counts the number of characters in the cell to the
left of it.

Thanks.
 
J

JE McGimpsey

If text in column B, one way:

A1: =LEN(B1)

or

A1: =IF(B1="","",LEN(B1))

Copy down as far as necessary
 

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