Brian. Thanks
Gee I wish it was that simple. 
I reduced the font size from 10 to 6 changed the font style and increased the 
column with to the rest of the page. While I do not get ### any longer, I now 
see the formula =SUM(A1:A2). What is also interesting is on the format cells 
menu, in the box on the lower right I see the correct result. I am doing this 
on a blank sheet with single digits like adding 1 and 2 to get the result of 3. 
I feel pretty dumb in not getting the result.
Thanks 
Dave

> On Feb 19, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Doesn't it seem time that this become a new feature with a default setting.
> -Automatically expand width of column.-
> 
> On 2/19/2015 9:18 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
>> At 08:57 19/02/2015 -0500, Dave Asaibene wrote:
>>> I take two cells, create a formula in a third cell and the calculation 
>>> results in a ###.
>> 
>> As you can see from the help text (under "### error message"), this means 
>> "The cell is not wide enough to display the contents." You need either to
>> o (simplest) increase the column width, or
>> o reduce the font size, or
>> o possibly modify the cell formatting so that the displayed result is narrow 
>> enough to fit.
>> 
>> Remember that the result that is too large to be displayed may itself be an 
>> error message.
>> 
>>> Went to the Frugal Computer guy to review but did not discover anything 
>>> glaring wrong in what I was doing.
>> 
>> Sack him and find a better computer guy(/gal).
>> 
>> I trust this helps.
>> 
>> Brian Barker
>> 
>> 
> 
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