I don't understand what you mean by cells being limited to 255 characters.
I'm reading these as Database commands mostly, which database data types may
very well have some limiting factors of how much can be stored as opposed to
Excel cells can handle 32,767 characters within a single cell, though only a
small portion of that would be visible from within the cell on the sheet.
This limit of cells is true of 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003.

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Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000

"barnabel" wrote in message
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Upgrade to Excel 2007. Prior versions were limited to 255 characters in a
cell

Peter Richardson

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Hi All,
I am inserting data to an Excel sheet pro grammatically.
I use the following udpate command:

da.UpdateCommand = new OleDbCommand(@"UPDATE [Sheet1$] SET
[Description (QA)] = ? , [R&D Comments (Dev/Analysts)] = ? WHERE
[Defect ID] = ?", conn);
da.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add("@Description (QA)",
OleDbType.VarChar, 255, "Description (QA)");
da.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add("@R&D Comments (Dev/Analysts)",
OleDbType.VarChar, 255, "R&D Comments (Dev/Analysts)");

I cant use a value 255.
Is there anyway to increase the limit?