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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.
Jan 27 '07
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MMcCarthy
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I will, but you're not online atm - even in TSDN so not just the program StartUp missing ;)
My niece's 18th birthday. I took a break.
Jan 29 '07 #11
NeoPa
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I have a niece having an 18th next month. I'm a bouncer - lol.
Of course you're allowed a break. You can look forward to another one next year too :D
Jan 29 '07 #12
MMcCarthy
14,534 Recognized Expert Moderator MVP
I have a niece having an 18th next month. I'm a bouncer - lol.
Of course you're allowed a break. You can look forward to another one next year too :D
One a year, you're too generous and that's enough hijacking of this thread.
Jan 29 '07 #13
Cindy Fox
1 New Member
Thanks for this thread!

Although it didn't have a way around the problem if indeed you do need to use a complicated query, it gave me enough info to find a way, so I thought I'd post.

Just create a simple query for that notes field and a report for just that field and use that report as a subreport in your report that must have a complex query to run it.

For instance, I am creating Order reports, but there are notes on each order that were being trunacated, so I created a simple query with just OrderID and NotesText, then created a report for just the NotesText field (and allowed it to grow or shrink) and then back to my complicated (not really, just grouping) query/report and created a subreport with the OrderID linked to the subreport (also allowed to grow or shrink).

Works sweetly!

Hope that helps someone else googling for answers!

c.
Nov 7 '07 #14
NeoPa
32,579 Recognized Expert Moderator MVP
Thanks Cindy.
We always appreciate more answers in threads. Different approaches nearly always prove valuable, even when they're not right for the current problem. Most of our traffic is actually from people who find threads by searching generally and most answers prove helpful for someone :)
Nov 8 '07 #15
Ericks
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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.
Choosing the option "First" instead of "Group by" in the Totals field is what I would do. The name of the field will now start with FirstOf when in datasheet view. Make sure you change this in the report.
Nov 8 '07 #16
Bodestone
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I had a very similar but more confusing issue and since this was the closest match on a web search I thought I would post here to save others the pain and immense confusion.

Using Access 2003 which does allow more than 255 characters in text areas on both forms and reports I had a report which was not showing the FIRST 255 characters of a text column. The data was from a view based on a VARCHAR(2000) column in SQL server using linked tables. A few other tables and views were inner joined but none reference this column.

I copied the query from the record source to a new basic query just to eliminate that and still had the issue. Showing the contents of the linked view or a simple SELECT * showed everything.

So, Starting from scratch I slowly built up the query, testing at each new addition to see where the problem occurred.

It turns out it was the last thing for me to test. I had DISTINCT instead of DISTINCTROW and that was the source of everything.
May 20 '10 #17
OldBirdman
675 Contributor
You all need more breaks :)
A textbox control will display more than 255 characters. This is true for both bound and unbound textboxes. If it could not, there would be no way to either enter or view a memo field from a form.
Of course, if a textbox is bound, but not to a memo field, the size of the table field will limit the size allowed in the control.
May 20 '10 #18
Vasily01
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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.

Thanks! My problem disappear after editing the query: without "distinct" it works good.
Apr 6 '13 #19
GregHB
2 New Member
One of my team members just had this issue yesterday (6-9-14). Thanks, everyone, for this thread. After reviewing your comments, I was able to fix the issue with her query.

As it turns out, she had "Totals" enabled and that was causing her Notes (Memo) field to be truncated.

I could see the data in the tables. Calculated fields showed the data in plain text: "Left([Notes],64000)" Type = Memo / plain text (Type = Text resulted in truncated fields in the table). But, each time the query would run, the fields would be cut off at 255 characters; sometimes in mid-sentence, other times in mid-word.

Sorry if I've revived a long-dormant thread, but this was extremely helpful to me and my team. We were able to publish a complete report to our federal client in a timely manner thanks to this thread.
Jun 10 '14 #20

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