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Text cell is displayed with hash characters

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Mar 15, 202651019 views
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In Excel 2007, I see that the content of some cells are displayed as hash characters (###). These cells are formatted as text and their contents are displayed like this if the number of characters are more than 255. Is there any way to fix this?

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Fix for: Text cell is displayed with hash characters

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Cells formatted as text can only handle 256 characters. Anything more and they will be displayed with hash characters (###). To get around this limitation, you can change the formatting of the cell to General. This format has a much larger character…

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