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Old December 14th, 2005, 10:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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Does MS Access 2003 truncate text data fields at 255 characters? How do I
change the truncation of text data?
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Old December 15th, 2005, 03:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:42:33 -0800, "Jason" Jason
@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:

Does MS Access 2003 truncate text data fields at 255 characters? How do I
change the truncation of text data?


Text fields are limited to 255. Memo fields are limited to 65536
characters, or actually to 2 GByte if you fill them programmatically
rather than by typing into them.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
 




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