How to declare a custom field more than 255 characters?

Dear Freinds,
I have custom table where one character field name i want more than 255 characters .....the size of the field i require is 800 .Could any one one let me know how i can increase the size to 800 or is there any way we can declare to size 800 ....as
normally i know is we can declare only 255 character in size, but i heard there is another way around we can declare . Could any one please help me out.
regards
madhuri

Hi Ruby,
i have tried changing at dataelement level only..byusingthe standrd ie char 2000 , and i have tried other way by creating a custom domain and for the data type i have used char and given size as 2000. Wheniam activating it is aying i can use the size range from 0 to 255 characters only......i have tried by declaring as string the data element ...it has taken as zero size as in the string we can use as many characters i can , but when iam trying to table generator ...it saying i canot declare my field as String .
please help what i can do to solve this issue.
thanks
regards
madhuri

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