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Brian Gallagher
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Is there a way to get around the 255 character limit in a text box that uses a cell reference? Ideally without having to use ActiveX controls, but any suggestions are welcome! 

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Hi Brian,

I'm not aware of any workaround, sorry.

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Hi Mynda,

Thanks for looking into this. I think as a workaround I can simply use in-cell text, and move away from the text boxes. This leads me to another question - is there a way to manage the height of a row, based on the character length in a cell? Possibly a VBA application ...

Thanks again,

Brian

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Somthing like the below?

Sub LenRowHeight()

Dim r As Range
Dim c As Variant

Set r = Range("a:a")

For Each c In r
If Len(c) > 10 Then
c.EntireRow.RowHeight = 50
End If
Next c

End Sub

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Thanks - will give this a try - I am very novice with my VBA but we have others on my team that could help - I'll let you know how it turns out.

Very much appreciated! 

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If you're using VBA you could just use the code to populate the text box.

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