[macropod]

Hi KDC,

Excel does not limit you to 255 characters in a cell. Excel 2000, for example, allows 32,767 characters. Only 1,024 display in the
cell but all 32,767 display in the formula bar.

In Word, you can fit a string about 32 megabytes long into a cell, but I wouldn't recommend it.

If you want to find out Word's or Excel's capacities, use Help with 'limits' as the subject.


Cheers

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"KDC" wrote in message ...
| Thank You, I know excel has a limit because I have ran into issues with
| this. I will make an assumption for now that word does not have a limit.
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| Thanks for your help.
|
| "Helmut Weber" wrote:
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| Hi KDC,
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| i've never heard about character limitation
| in a Word 2003 table cell,
| which doesn't mean "unlimited".
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| I know in EXCEL there is a 255 character limitation
| but I need to know if word has one.
|
| I've just filled an Excel-cell with 392 characters.
| No problem, it seems.
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| Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
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| Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA
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