A data validation input message is limited to 255 characters. Perhaps
you could use a cell comment instead, to display more text.

wrote:
I am trying to put approximately 14 lines(size 12, standard font, Word
format) of text onto a column in Excel. These are definitions that are
needed to explain the drop list. I can not enter more than 6, or so, lines
of text. Why? Can I change this? Expand it?


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Debra Dalgleish
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