When there are limitations on strings, it is usually 255.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Kiloran" wrote in message
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I'm using Excel 2002

I have a statement: workbooks.open(url)
where url is a string of the form "http:\\xxxxxxx"

What is the maximum length of url? It looks like it may be limited to 255
characters

--Kiloran