Stupid Question

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The suggestions from others about breaking up the field
into smaller parts or changing to memo fields may be what
you need, but if you simply need a little more space than
Access displays by default in new tables (say to hold 30
characters rather than 10 or 12, you can either widen the
column and/or increase the row height (click and drag the
column and row heading separators). I suggest this
because you say you're a raw beginner and may not be aware
of the ways to change displays. You cannot break a line
in input EXCEPT in a memo field.

HEARTILY CONCUR with others' excellent advice - do NOT use
spaces in Access object names - MUCH better to name
something like "Table_Name" rather than "Table Name"

Good luck - you'll like Access after you've used it a bit.

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I have a real easy, dumb question. I work as an intern
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in a legal office. They are having me make a table
database on Access even though I have never used it
before, so I am kind-of learning as I go.
One field / column in my table is "File Name and
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Description". THis means I need to type quite a bit of
information into this field, but Access doesnt let me type
any more than one line. I need to format this column to
fit more words!!
 
I also think using underscores is a bad habit. Granted "Table_Name" is much
better than "Table Name". However, if you have a long code procedure with many
references to objects, and the object names all have underscores, the code is
difficult to read. Also, the underscore is the line continuation character so
this could lead to confusion. I have found the better thing to do is to
capitalize the first letter in each word in compound names. For example,
TableName rather than Tablename.

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