The Excel book is right......you can enter 32,767 characters in a cell.

What the book did not explain is that only 1024 or those characters can be seen
or printed.

Stick in an ALT + ENTER(carriage return) about every 100 characters and you can
expand the 1024 limit by at least 4 or 5 times.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:43:02 -0800, "STLVicki"
wrote:

I'm trying have a large text field in an excel file. After about 10 - 12
lines the text no longer wraps. My Excel book said each cell holds about
32,000 characters, my text is less than 2,000 characters (with spaces). Any
ideas?