Just checked.. in excel 2003 you can enter "32767" characters in a cell.
Thanks,
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Dilip Kumar Pandey
MBA, BCA, B.Com(Hons.)
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You can see more than the 1000 or so characters documented in xl's help by
adding alt-enters (to force new lines within the cell) every 80-100 characters.