Excel 2003, Linked Spreadsheet, Cell Character Count

[Chuck Hague]

Currently use Excell 2003 - SP2, to document weekly status reports from about
a dozen team mates. The consolidating spreadsheet, with links to all the
others, will only display the first 255 characters of a linked cell. Report
spreadsheets (data entry point) display 2 or 3 times that many characters
without ptoblem.

Is the 255 characters for "linked cells" an absolute limit or is there a way
to display more characters in a cell linked to another spreadsheet.

(Note: all spreadsheets stored in the same folder on a network file server)

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences,

 

[Kevin B]

255 is the maximum width of a column and I don't know of a limit of 255
placed on linked cells. As far as the display of data is concerned, Excel
limits the number of characters per cell to a maximum of 32,737, however, it
will only display the first 1,024 characters.

As long as there's is nothing to the right of you cell, you should see a
maximum of 1,024 characters per cell, linked or not.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Excel will only bring back 255 characters from a closed workbook.

If you open the "sending" workbook (and recalc), then you'll see all the
characters.

That's the way excel works.

 

[Chuck Hague]

Thanks Dave,

Much appreciate your sharing

C. B. Hague
Orlando, Fl

Excel will only bring back 255 characters from a closed workbook.

If you open the "sending" workbook (and recalc), then you'll see all the
characters.

That's the way excel works.