set unlimited field size

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Apologies for asking such a basic question but..
I am having problems increasing the field size of a text box beyond 255..

does anyone know an easy way to do this or an alternative to using a text box?

i am trying to create an error reporting database and need to be able to
capture quite large amounts of text.

i'm not too hot with visual basic, but any help again would be appreciated.

thanks :)
 
discocyst said:
Apologies for asking such a basic question but..
I am having problems increasing the field size of a text box beyond
255..

does anyone know an easy way to do this or an alternative to using a
text box?

i am trying to create an error reporting database and need to be able
to capture quite large amounts of text.

i'm not too hot with visual basic, but any help again would be
appreciated.

thanks :)
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Change the Datatype to Memo. There are some caveats with that type. You cannot
index it, link or group on it in queries (grouping will actually be applied to
first 255 characters).
 
Thanks.. works fine now :)

Rick Brandt said:
Change the Datatype to Memo. There are some caveats with that type. You cannot
index it, link or group on it in queries (grouping will actually be applied to
first 255 characters).
Click to expand...
 
Thanks.. works fine now :)

Rick Brandt said:
Change the Datatype to Memo. There are some caveats with that type. You cannot
index it, link or group on it in queries (grouping will actually be applied to
first 255 characters).
Click to expand...
 
Thanks.. works fine now :)

Rick Brandt said:
Change the Datatype to Memo. There are some caveats with that type. You cannot
index it, link or group on it in queries (grouping will actually be applied to
first 255 characters).
Click to expand...
 
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