Excel: Use formula longer that 255 characters

Question

I have the following formula in excel

=CONCATENATE(\"insert into #UpdateData (mondayopenhour, mondayopenmin,mondayclosehour, mondayclosemin,tuesdayopenhour,          


        

Answer 1

Well as for my solution for the same problem, those long text I put it on a separate cell and not part of my formula itself. Example:

=CONCATENATE("INSERT INTO CAS_ACD (ACD_NUMBER, WAGON_WHEEL_INDEX, WAGON_WHEEL_COUNT, WAGON_WHEEL_COUNT_MAX, WAIT_TIME, MAX_WAIT_TIME,
MON_TIME, TUE_TIME, WED_TIME, THU_TIME, FRI_TIME, SAT_TIME, SUN_TIME, DATE_CLOSED1,
DATE_CLOSED2, DATE_CLOSED3, DATE_CLOSED4, DATE_CLOSED5, DATE_CLOSED6, DATE_CLOSED7, DATE_CLOSED8,
DATE_CLOSED9, DATE_CLOSED10, DATE_CLOSED11, DATE_CLOSED12, DATE_CLOSED13, DATE_CLOSED14,
DATE_CLOSED15, DATE_CLOSED16, DATE_CLOSED17, DATE_CLOSED18, DATE_CLOSED19, DATE_CLOSED20,
CTI_SERVER_ADDR, PROGRAM_NUM, VERSION_NUM, COMMENTS, TOD_VOICE_DIR, TOD_VS, ACD_NAME) 
VALUES ("B2, C2,");")

Instead, I store this to one of the cell A2

Cell A2 now contains=
INSERT INTO CAS_ACD (ACD_NUMBER, WAGON_WHEEL_INDEX, WAGON_WHEEL_COUNT, WAGON_WHEEL_COUNT_MAX, WAIT_TIME, MAX_WAIT_TIME,
MON_TIME, TUE_TIME, WED_TIME, THU_TIME, FRI_TIME, SAT_TIME, SUN_TIME, DATE_CLOSED1,
DATE_CLOSED2, DATE_CLOSED3, DATE_CLOSED4, DATE_CLOSED5, DATE_CLOSED6, DATE_CLOSED7, DATE_CLOSED8,
DATE_CLOSED9, DATE_CLOSED10, DATE_CLOSED11, DATE_CLOSED12, DATE_CLOSED13, DATE_CLOSED14,
DATE_CLOSED15, DATE_CLOSED16, DATE_CLOSED17, DATE_CLOSED18, DATE_CLOSED19, DATE_CLOSED20,
CTI_SERVER_ADDR, PROGRAM_NUM, VERSION_NUM, COMMENTS, TOD_VOICE_DIR, TOD_VS, ACD_NAME) 
VALUES ('

So my formula now is

=CONCATENATE( A2, B2, C2)