how many words/characters are allowed in a table cell?

[Tony Jollans]

As many as you want.

You can constrain the cell size but the contents can go on beyond what is
visible.

If you have a Form Field inside your table cell (or anywhere else) you can
limit the number of characters which can be typed into it.

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Tony,

at least here and now,
a document consisting of nothing but
a 1 row 1 column table spanning 160 pages
wasn't a problem. ;-)

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

 

[mfreecox]

that's great. maybe I should re-phrase question to - how many
words/characters are visible in a table cell within Word?

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi,

¦lol¦

for a 1-cell-table full of "m",
spanning 160 pages,
activedocument.characters.count results in
"not responding"

Maybe I should have waited till tomorrow.


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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

 

[Tony Jollans]

The answer is essentially the same - as many as you want. You define the
size of the table cell.

Rather foolishly perhaps I did what Helmut did - created a one row one
column table, typed in =rand(200,99) and got 225 pages - character count
took perhaps a minute or more but came back at 910603.

Theoretical maximum is I suppose around the theoretical maximum document
size of 32Mb.

 

[Jezebel]

You're asking the wrong question. The literal answer you've had already from
others: 'as many as you want'. But as you will find (and as Helmut as found)
you run into formatting problems long before you hit technical limits. If
you have a table cell with more content than fits on one page, then either
you shouldn't be using a table or you shouldn't be using Word.

What are you actually trying to do?