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i want to be able to stop a user adding more then 100 words into a cell. i have a cell B16 in which the user puts in a description and i want to limit it to 100 words
 

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You could use a data validation formula eg:

=LEN(B16)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B16," ",""))<100
 
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