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Is there a way to get the MAXIMUM character count of any cell in a column? In other words if the worksheet looked like this... The result would be:
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Martin Liss
Create a Column on the right of each one with length(cell), last cell is max(cells).
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William Peck
Hopefully, you can extrapolate what the other cells should be:
Column D is the length of A, Column E is the length of B, Column F is the length of C. "cell" represents the cell reference - a1, a2, b3, c2, etc)
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