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XL: Cell Appears Blank with Angled Text and Small Row Height

Article ID: 212126

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac



This article was previously published under Q212126


SYMPTOMS

When you decrease the height of a row in Microsoft Excel, the content of a cell in the row may disappear and the cell may appear to be blank.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if the following conditions are true:

  • You format a cell to use text orientation that is either greater or less than 0.


-and-

  • You decrease the height of the row that contains the cell in question.


WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, increase the row height until the number is visible.


Additional query words: horizontal XL2001 XL2000 excel macintosh character format empty

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