# Work-around for cell limit

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/work-around-for-cell-limit/1074>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [October 10, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/work-around-for-cell-limit/1074 "2019-10-10T15:50:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lori\_W](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lori_w/32/876_2.png) [@Lori\_W](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lori_W)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/work-around-for-cell-limit/1074/1 "2019-10-10T15:50:03Z")

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I have A LOT of policies that contain A LOT of text. I am finding I am capped at 50,000 per cell. Is there a work around? What I am doing now, which I am not a fan of, is breaking the policy into parts and each part is a line item in the sheet.

example:  
Policy Number | Policy Name | **Parts** | Date  
1234 | ABC | **1 of 5** | Oct 10, 2019  
1234 | ABC | **2 of 5** | Oct 10, 2019

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**Author:** ![George\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/george_b/32/534_2.png) [@George\_B](https://community.glideapps.com/u/George_B)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/work-around-for-cell-limit/1074/2 "2019-10-10T16:07:33Z")

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I use a link to a PDF for most of my long documents. Otherwise I don’t know of a way besides what you are doing.

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**Author:** ![Lori\_W](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lori_w/32/876_2.png) [@Lori\_W](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lori_W)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/work-around-for-cell-limit/1074/3 "2019-10-10T16:19:42Z")

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If I were to use the PDF, I am going to assume the search feature would not function? Is that correct? Ideally I would be able to put “School” into the search box and all the policies with that word would filter.

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**Author:** ![George\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/george_b/32/534_2.png) [@George\_B](https://community.glideapps.com/u/George_B)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/work-around-for-cell-limit/1074/4 "2019-10-10T20:48:54Z")

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You are correct. But once the odd is opened by what ever your user has selected on the device to view it there could be searching within the given pdf.
