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Error Message: Error in Formula

Article ID: 166783

Article Last Modified on 11/27/1999

Microsoft Pocket Excel 3.0

This article was previously published under Q166783

SYMPTOMS

If a function in Pocket Excel is exactly 256 characters long, you receive the following error message:

Error in formula. There may be an incorrect number of arguments, a missing operand or parenthesis, or another syntax error.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs when you exceed the maximum character length for a cell.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, limit the number of characters in the cell to 255 or less.

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