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Access - increase field text from 255
Please offer if there is a way to increase the text count per field to be greater than 255. I have not found any solutions in my research.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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are you talking about a form control textbox?
if this a bound control, you have to change the table field data type to MEMO
if this a bound control, you have to change the table field data type to MEMO
In a regular table field. Thanks.
255 is the maximum length of a text field. Â If you need it to be longer, it must be a memo.






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Thank you everyone - let me give this a try.
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Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.