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XL98: Text Is Truncated to 255 Characters After You Use Justify Command

Article ID: 179036

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002

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This article was previously published under Q179036

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 98, when you use the Justify command to redistribute text to fill a selected range of cells, the text string may be truncated to 255 or fewer characters.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

To use the Justify command to redistribute text to a selected range of cells, follow these steps:
  1. Select the range of cells that includes the cell with the text string and the blank cells over which you want to justify the text.

    For example, if cell A1 contains the text string, and you want to justify the text over cells A1 to A10, select the range A1:A10.
  2. On the Edit menu, point to Fill, and then click Justify.

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

156350 XL97: AutoFill Limited to 255 Characters


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