I've been searching the archives but don't even know where to begin
because I don't know what function would be used in Excel to do this.
After some time, it just occurred to me that even conditional
formatting would work. An odd number of characters (I have code to
remove punctuation and spaces that I'd run on the text string first),
would make the cell turn red and even number of characters would turn
the cell background green because I need even-numbered text strings
and this would test for that before I go further.

I know something can be done because of this one message I managed to
find:
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...a1f0de1cf496d2
but that's all there seems to be as Excel users are usu. concerned
with odd- and even-numbered rows rather than the length of a string of
text. tia! :oD