Memo and its interface can easily handle 64000 characters.
If yours is truncating after 255 characters:
1. Open the table in design view.
2. Double-check the field is a Memo (not Text) type.
3. Make sure you do not have anything in the Format property of the field
(lower pane in Table Design view).
4. Open your form in design view.
5. Right-click the text box bound to the memo, and choose Properties. Make
sure there is nothing in the Format or Input Mask properties of the text
box.
6. If the form is based on a query, make sure there is no aggregation in the
query. For example, it must not have a DISTINCT predicate, or a GROUP BY
clause on the memo.
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"Chris" <sc***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:32**************************@posting.google.c om...
I'm sure this is a very easy one if you know, but any help would be
appreciated
I have a field in my database which needs to be as long as poosible.
in the help it says that a memo field is 4000 odd characters long,
which would be about right. However my memo field does not remember
any more than about 300 characters. Is there a box or something to tick
to allow longer field lengths?
thanks again
