>Hi Cetin,
>
>Thanks for the reply. I found out that the problem lies on how I store the collection of UpdateNamelist into a variable. I found out that a variable or a property can only store up to 254 chars and that was the cause of the problem.
>
>Thanks again...

A variable can store more than 255 AFAIK (up to 16Mb as docs say but in reality sounds to be more). A literal however is limited to 255. ie:
lcVar = "upto 255 in length ..." + "upto 255 in length ..."
Cetin