Easily Editting Fields With More Than 1024 Characters

i suspect i know the answer to this already, but here goes anyway....

i have a table that has field of varchar(2048), which once in a blue moon i
need to edit the data manually (until a bad character parser validates the
data before it's written ;-) )
at the moment i'm doing this through enterprise manager (sql server 2000),
opening the table then filtering using where clauses etc to see the records
i'm interested in. i then edit the data direct in the results pane (purely
because it's quicker than entering the UPDATE transact SQL). this is fine
until i hit a record that has 1024 or more characters in the field. all i
can do is delete all the data. if i try and paste the same data into the
field again, it'll truncate the record to the first 1024 chars (unconfirmed)
despite the field being able to take double that.

i've googled this and the result basically said "don't be lazy, do it
through UPDATE transact SQL in the query analyser".

anyone know if that's my only option or is there a patch / whatever to allow
me to keep using entman as i lazily do at the mo?

cheers!