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phpMyAdmin is asking what size a new index should be for a varchar field with 255 characters.

Hi folks - a newbie question, with apologies. I have a table with only 14,500 rows, which is not likely to increase much over time. I'm trying to index one field to enable fulltext searching, and phyMyAdmin is asking me to enter a size for the index. I have no idea what this number should be, or indeed how to look up the answer. Thanks.

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