pound signs

[Guest]

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.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I'd try the General format once more.

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.

 

[Bob Phillips]

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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[Guest]

AWH,
I've got exactly the same problem and have tried all the remedies now
posted. It in one cell I've set the text to wrap, general format etc. and
can't fix it. Did you arrive at a solution?