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Nigel Martin

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I have a spreadsheet with a comments heading in a column. Some comments can be upward of around 1500 charsacters (including spaces etc.). By merging and resizing the cells I can only get Excel to display around 1100 characters. Any ideas?
 

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I just tried putting about a million A's in a text box and inserting that in the sheet. Seemed to work pretty well...


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Hi Nigel,

I suggest you use a real comment rather than typing the comment in as the cell value. Once the data is entered into a cell comment you can scale the comment box to fit over the cell and a comment is not limited to displaying only 1024 characters. Insert the comment using menu Insert -> Comment, and keep it visible using View -> Comments.

If you have lots of these, it would be fairly easy to write a VBA macro that automates moving and scaling all the comments and setting row height on a worksheet to display on top of the cells that contain them rather than displaying off to the side.
 
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I have already tried that. Think of it as a very cell just 1 of many others that you can then use auto filter on etc. eg cell D1 has 1500 characters and cell D2 has 1100 characters etc.
 
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