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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

When a number is too large to fit in the width of a column, Excel will display pound signs. Episode 402 shows a unique way to select all of the cells that are currently displaying as pound signs. This trick would seem to be useful for quickly formatting all of the cells that match some certain condition.

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