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Check a Calc report label before shortening it

Keep the complete original and give the reader a manual wording field.

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Work with the example

Does the full label fit the supplied six-character allowance? A5 contains 香港會議室A; B5 is 6; C5 uses LEN(A5). This exercise uses basic Latin and BMP Chinese characters, not a universal screen-width or emoji limit.

Supplied exercise data
LabelLENResult
香港會議室A6Within allowance
Room A6Within allowance

Edit the working cells

Insert a space before A: 香港會議室 A has length 7 and the result says Shorten wording. A fresh allowance 7 accepts that same complete label. Write a reviewed shorter label in E5 rather than overwriting the original. Empty text has LEN 0, but that does not satisfy a required-label rule.

Check the failure case

E8 uses LEFT(A5;B5). At the edited six-character allowance it discards the final A, which may identify the room. Length review is different from safely truncating an imported field.

Does LEN=6 establish that a label fits a given pixel width?

Show the worked answer

No. Character count and rendered width are different measurements.

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