I have found it although is there any way to determine how big the text field so i can get an accurate varchar size..if this is not the right way please correct

Code example
declare @NewText varchar(200)
set @newText = 'Reversed by : OSL,OSL'
update journals_reversals set details = RTRIM(LTRIM(@NewText)) + CHAR(13) + RTRIM(LTRIM(convert(varchar(1000),details)))
select details from journals_reversals



>I'm trying to add a string to a text field and it keeps telling me that......
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>Server: Msg 403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
>Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text.
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>Code
>update journals_reversals set details = 'blah..' + details
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>TIA
>Shawn