I was thinking of creating a site that someone could upload guides onto and others could view the guides. Instead of making everything manually I wanted to let users have the ability to upload their own guides. A lot of the guides that I wanted to add are already created in MS Word. I was wondering if there was a SQL data type that would be able to hold say 10k characters+. This way I could just paste what I already have and not have to type it all in again. Is this possible? If it is, is there anyway of keeping the bullet formatting with it, or would it be easier to just have a drop down on how many steps your process takes then fill them all in step by step.

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Storage for large text values. While the theoretical limit on the size of the text that can be stored in a LONGTEXT column exceeds 4 GB, the practical limit is much less due to limitations of the MySQL communication protocol and the amount of memory available to both the client and server ends of the communication.

Becareful cutting and pasting from word. Word docs can have characters that won't display properly in the browser. You'll need to clean it up first.