By the way, I do not know that a Table can't handle this. I just know that even trying to do it interferes in major ways with things like section breaks and other things that make it much easier to format a large project.

According to Paul Edstein, whom I trust, the maximum number of characters for a single table cell is 2^25 (about 32,000,000).

Basically, it's the same as the text limit for a document, minus 2 characters.

What the OP is describing a requirement for is Margin Text, for which see: http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/MarginalTex...ueMarginalText

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