Murphy, thanks for that, works fine, I just never worked out the syntax of the IF statements before, have been able to do some others now

Another question for everybody.

I am Windows 2002. My cells are format Text, with Wrap Text enabled. I can enter up to 255 characters of text in a cell, anything beyond that and the whole cell just shows all ###### although when selected the full cell contents are correctly shown in the formula bar.

But I read the Excel spec is a cell limit of 32,768 characters, of which the first 1,024 characters are displayed in the cell. Any reason for the shortfall I am getting ?