{"id":946,"date":"2013-01-31T19:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/?p=946"},"modified":"2013-01-31T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:48:42","slug":"excel-find-widest-value-in-range-of-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/2013\/01\/excel-find-widest-value-in-range-of-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel &#8211; Find widest value in range of cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excel tip for finding the maximum width\/length of values in a range of cells. It is useful when converting spreadsheets to databases where you need to define the data attributes.<\/p>\n<p>Type the following including braces into a cell adjusting the range values to your actual range of data. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(DO NOT HIT ENTER)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><code>{=MAX(LEN(A5:A100))}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Press CTRL + Shift + Enter\u00a0 to make the formula display the value of the widest row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excel tip for finding the maximum width\/length of values in a range of cells. It is useful when converting spreadsheets to databases where you need to define the data attributes. Type the following including braces into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/2013\/01\/excel-find-widest-value-in-range-of-cells\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippets-quick-code-tips-for-single-elements-attributes-or-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}