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SUMMARYIn Microsoft Excel 97, the NoteText method of a cell is limited to a maximum length of 255 characters. This article explains how to work around this limitation and some of the related problems that you may encounter when you work with cell comments. MORE INFORMATIONMicrosoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without
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the following page on the World Wide Web: http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/overview/overview.asp Working Around the 255 Character Limitation of the NoteText MethodAlthough the NoteText method of a cell is limited to a maximum of 255 characters, you can apply a comment that is up to 32,767 characters in length to a cell. To do this, use the Text method of a Comment object that is attached to the cell. For example, instead of the following code
use a line of code similar to the following:
Using the NoteText Method with Comments Longer Than 255 CharactersIf you use the NoteText method to apply a comment that is longer than 255 characters in length to a cell, the new comment is not applied to the cell, and you do not receive an error message.For example, if you run a macro with the following code
and the active cell does not already contain a comment, no comment is added
to the cell because the length of the new comment would exceed 255
characters.
If you run a macro with the following code
and the length of the existing comment exceeds 155 characters, the comment
is not updated because the length of the new comment would exceed 255
characters.
NOTE: In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, the first 255 characters of text are applied to the comment; the remaining characters are truncated. Using Comment.Text to Change the Comment Applied to a CellWhen you use Comment.Text to change the comment applied to a cell, the cell must already have a comment applied to it. If no comment was previously applied to the cell, you receive the following error message:To apply a comment to a cell, use code similar to the following:
NOTE: If the active cell already has a comment applied to it, you receive
the following error message when you run the code:
To add a comment to a cell that may or may not contain a comment, use code similar to the following:
Using Comment.Text to Add New Text to an Existing CommentIf you want to add new text to an existing comment while preserving the original comment text, use a line of code similar to the following:
Characters over the 32,767 character limit for comments are truncated.
REFERENCESFor more information on using comments in Microsoft Excel 97, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q158246 XL97: How to Determine if the Active Cell Contains a Comment Additional query words: XL97 32767
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