I am having problem with excel formula bar when formula exceeds 1024 characters.
It is not accepting formula and giving "out of memory" run time error when i am setting the formula from vb6 code.
Are there any settings in excel to increase the maximum length of a formula bar?
Thanks in advance.
In Excel 2003 the maximum number of characters in a cell is 32,767, all of
which will show up in the formula bar, but only 1024 will show up in the cell
itself.
And that 1024 "limit" can be broken by adding alt-enters every 80-100
characters, too.
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I am encountering a strange error when trying to use VBA to implement some formulas. Here is the formula I'm using to place "0.00%" instead of an error message in my cells:
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("SM Summaries").Range("F6").FormulaR1C1 = "=IFERROR(RC[-2]/RC[-1], ""0.00%"")"
Now it places the 0.00% just fine, but even when its cell type is defined as percentage, if I sort largest to smallest by % it places the 0s at the top...
Here you can see where the 0s are placed on top even when doing largest to smallest. And the cell types are set properly to percentage as well:
Any idea what's going on here?
I have also tried just placed in 0.00 instead of 0.00% as well as 0% and "0", all of those options still showing 0 as being considered a "large number". The only reason that they're not green in the picture above is because I set a conditional formatting rule to stop turning 0s green (when the number is greater than 1).
The ""0.00%"" is putting the value in as text. And as such when Excel Sorts Descending it puts Text first.
You need to just put in 0 and format the cells as percent. So replace the ""0.00%"" with 0. No quotes. The quotes are forcing the number to text.
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("SM Summaries").Range("F6").FormulaR1C1 = "=IFERROR(RC[-2]/RC[-1], 0)"
I have an ongoing table that contains info in columns A-K and an undefined amount of rows. I'm trying to create a rule that will highlight columns A-K in a specific row if the value of cell D in that row is less than or equal to a specific date.
I have tried "Use a formula to determine which cells to format" with this formula: =INDIRECT("D"&ROW())<"DATE" and applied it to $A:$K
This turned my entire chart orange...
I've also tried "Format only cells that contain" with this formula: "Cell Value less than or equal to" =INDIRECT("D"&ROW())="DATE" and applied it to $A:$K
with the same effect...
Can anyone help me to get this corrected?
I just figured it out:
=$D1>TODAY() format font to orange
=$D1<=TODAY() format font to black
Thank you #Phylogenesis for your help! I really appreciate it!
I am writting to an excel file from my vb code. The code goes as below
xlsheet3 = xlBook.Sheets.Add(After:=xlSheet)
With xlsheet3
.Columns(5).NumberFormat = "#"
.Cells(j + 1, 5) = someStringValue 'Here "j" is a row counter and this line is in a "for loop"
end with
After writing to excel, most of the cells in excel are correct. But some of the cell's text comes as ####### however if I click on the cell, formula bar shows the correct result. I have tried giving single code before adding the text still that did not help.
Please help me in resolving this.
Thank you
There is not any issue with your code. You need to increase the width of the column or have to use word wrap. In excel if your value is not fully visible it shows it is "######".
If widening and wrapping text doesn't work and the format is set to text which allows display of only 255 characters, try changing the format to general.
This just indicates that the cell is too small for showing the result: make it wider.
See https://superuser.com/questions/65556/excel-displays-for-long-text-whats-wrong for some common reasons why Excel displays "######" in cells.
Either the cell is too narrow to display the contents or the contents are over 256 characters.
Check what you're writing to the cell. If it's not too long then all you need to do is resize the column to fit the new contents.
This is simply what Excel does when the data in a column is too wide to be displayed in the current column width. Make the column slightly wider and you will see all your data.
To autosize the column so it is wide enough to display all its data, double click the column divider at the right edge of the column, in the header bar.
I am trying to link cells in excel on two different work sheets.
I am using the formula eg: cell1 = cell2 + cell3. The numbers that I have in cell2 and cell3 are in format of 100% (1) and 50% (2). I just want to add numbers 1 and 2 so that my cell1 will have number 3.
Is it possible to do without changing the cell formats?
Thanks a lot.
If you don't care about the percentages, just copy your column with the percentages and change the format of that column to value and in sheet 2, do addition on that column instead.
Unfortunately when a cell has a format of percentage and a user enters a number, it is converted into what it means given the context of the format. It's not like what is being displayed is wildly different than what is 'hidden' inside the cell. When you reformat a cell, that data is reformatted as well, so 50% becomes .5 even if you had originally entered 50 in the cell before changing it's format. Format is more than just 'display format' so maybe that's where the confusion is.
If you want to add the cells in the percentage row and not bother with reformatting the formula cell you can cheat and treat it as a string to get rid of that %. You could do =Left(A2+A3, Len(A2+A3)) that will give you the 1.5 answer without having to format te cell.
Not sure i understood your question but i'll give some elements:
formula and formats are separated in Excel, thus, you can set a formula in A1, say =A2+A3 but displays the value the way you wish
for instance, if A2 contains 100% and A3 contains 50%, then the result in A1 is worth 1.5
you can set the format of A1 the way you wish (Right-clic > Format cells > Number tab), for instance, decimal, the cell will then display 1.5 but if you choose percentage, the cell will then display 150%
Please elaborate your question if needed.
[EDIT] New answer thanks to your comment:
If i understand well, you want to sum up the values between brackets in your cell (whatever is before, event percentages in your case).
Then, you can try this in cell A3:
=MID(A1,FIND("(",A1)+1,FIND(")",A1)-FIND("(",A1)-1 )+MID(A2,FIND("(",A2)+1,FIND(")",A2)-FIND("(",A2)-1 )
I would like to type at least 500 characters in excel sheet cell. But when I do that it only lets me add 1 paragraph like 196 characters. When I add another paragraph, it gives me a message **
"Exceeded Text Limit"
**. How do I resolve this so I can add lot of text in the cell. I googled and tried different things and failed.
Please help !!!
There is a 32,767 character limit in Excel per cell when wrapping text.
You might be able to import it into Access as a Table, with a Memo field that can hold 65,000 characters.
A text box can also hold more, but if you're doing any calculations, this isn't practical.
Try looking here: http://excel.tips.net/Pages/T003163_Character_Limits_for_Cells.html