I have been able to export 25,000+ characters in one cell in access, I was only able to achieve this running an append query to a table and then export it. If a ran a query to another query and then append it , It didnt work for some reason. I had to do it in one shot. I also export it in Xls format into excel then have some code that changes it to what I want. When you append it to the table make sure that your appending it to a memo field.