I have a memo field in a report that is truncating at 255 characters. I've tried the following w/no success: 1. Grow/Shrink option is yes. 2. "Group By" changed to "first". 3. "Group by" changed to "last" 4. took out memo field, saved query, and reinserted memo field. nothing seems to be fixing this bug. Please help! any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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I have a memo field in a report that is truncating at 255 characters. I've tried the following w/no success: 1. Grow/Shrink option is yes. 2. "Group By" changed to "first". 3. "Group by" changed to "last" 4. took out memo field, saved query, and reinserted memo field. nothing seems to be fixing this bug. Please help! any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Does the memo field display correcty in your table? If so, it may be the query itself that is the cause of the problem. Would you mind posting the query?
NeoPa 32,577
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Good for you JLC (I really can't write jenkinsloveschi cken every time can I :)).
It's always good to see Junior Members helping with answers. In this case I suspect the OP is having the problem as they are trying to display the item in a report. Reports don't have Memo controls. IE. They must be trying to display a Memo field using a TextBox - for which the maximum length is 255 characters.
You may also be on the right lines with the query though - I'm not sure that would support anything greater than 255 characters either.
I think I finally figured it out. I did have a memo field (not text field). The memo field seems to display all characters on current information, but was not working for older data that was imported into access from excel. As long as my current info is displaying, it's not a big problem anymore. thanks so much for the advice & tips.
-Jenn
Good for you JLC (I really can't write jenkinsloveschi cken every time can I :)).
It's always good to see Junior Members helping with answers. In this case I suspect the OP is having the problem as they are trying to display the item in a report. Reports don't have Memo controls. IE. They must be trying to display a Memo field using a TextBox - for which the maximum length is 255 characters.
You may also be on the right lines with the query though - I'm not sure that would support anything greater than 255 characters either.
MMcCarthy 14,534
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I think I finally figured it out. I did have a memo field (not text field). The memo field seems to display all characters on current information, but was not working for older data that was imported into access from excel. As long as my current info is displaying, it's not a big problem anymore. thanks so much for the advice & tips.
-Jenn
At a guess I would say that the older data that was imported from excel has some illegal carriage return characters that access can't interpret. If you view the data in the table can you see some rectangle characters mixed in with the text?
I use a fair number of memo fields because of working in the healthcare field; we're big on Progress Notes and such. Because of this I'm always looking out for anything on the topic. The following is a distillation of things I've picked up over the past few years. To give you an idea, I keep it in a file titled MemoFieldAngst!
Crosstab queries, Summary queries, Union queries, and Queries that use Distinct or DistinctRow will all truncate a memo field to 255 characters so Access can perform the required functionality of eliminating duplicates.
Also, if you have specified a format in the field's Format property, this will often truncate the data as well.
If Unique Value Property is set to Yes, Access has to compare the values and therefore Memo Field values are truncated.
The bottom line is, if you use memo fields keep it simple! No fancy formatting and no fancy data manipulation!
NeoPa 32,577
Recognized Expert Moderator MVP
I think I finally figured it out. I did have a memo field (not text field). The memo field seems to display all characters on current information, but was not working for older data that was imported into access from excel. As long as my current info is displaying, it's not a big problem anymore. thanks so much for the advice & tips.
-Jenn
I was aware that you were using a Memo Field in your table. However, unless you know something I don't, there is no Memo Control in either a Report or a Form. IE. Assuming your first post was accurate and you were having this problem in a Report, you were trying to display a Memo Field via a TextBox Control, which has a limit of 255 characters.
I hope that clears up any confusion :)
NeoPa 32,577
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We're going to have to set up a The Wisdom of MissingLinq thread obviously. I went to stick the new post and add it to the Tutorials section, only to find it done already ( Memo Fields in Access). I thought Memo Field Angst a better title, but hey...
MMcCarthy 14,534
Recognized Expert Moderator MVP
We're going to have to set up a The Wisdom of MissingLinq thread obviously. I went to stick the new post and add it to the Tutorials section, only to find it done already (Memo Fields in Access). I thought Memo Field Angst a better title, but hey...
Talk to me and I'll explain how I did it.
NeoPa 32,577
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I will, but you're not online atm - even in TSDN so not just the program StartUp missing ;)
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