##### in a cell?

While using excel what does ##### mean in a cell?

Usually a number that does not fit in a cell, maybe a date (try to adjust
column width)
a negative time (A1-A2 where A1 holds 09:00 and A2 10:00)

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Peo Sjoblom

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"Tyler" wrote in message
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While using excel what does ##### mean in a cell?

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:23:02 -0700, "Tyler"
wrote:

While using excel what does ##### mean in a cell?

Two of the possibilities:

1. The column is too narrow to display a numeric entry.
2. You have a negative number with the cell formatted as date or time and are
using the 1900 date system.


--ron

It means the cell is not wide enough to display the contents.
Enlarge it by moving your cursor onto the right border in the header area ("A","B" etc)
until it changes shape (a vertical bar with arrows pointing left & right) and either left
click/hold and drag the border to the left or double click it-which will enlarge the
column to display the longest value in the column.

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Regards;
Rob
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"Tyler" wrote in message
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While using excel what does ##### mean in a cell?

It could mean a few things.

1. The columnwidth is too narrow to show the number.

Widen the column or change the font size of that cell. Or change the
numberformat to General.

2. You have a date/time in that cell and it's negative

Don't use negative dates. If excel was helping you, it may have
changed the format to a date. Change it back to General (or some
other number format).

If you need to see negative date/times:
Tools|options|Calculation Tab|and check 1904 date system
(but this can cause trouble--watch what happens to your dates
and watch what happens when you copy|paste dates to a different
workbook that doesn't use this setting)

3. You have a lot of text in the cell, the cell is formatted as Text.

Format the cell as general.

4. You really have ###'s in that cell.

Clean up that cell.

5. You have # in a cell, but it's format is set to Fill.

Change the format
(format|cells|alignment tab|horizontal box, change it to General.

Tyler wrote:

While using excel what does ##### mean in a cell?

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Dave Peterson