Update to form not showing up

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Carla

I am trying to increase the size of a text box on a form to show all the data
that is entered. Right now you can enter the data, but only a portion of it
shows. The underlying field in the table is set to 255. I changed the
size of the text box on the form in design view by just dragging it down to
make it bigger and saved it. Looked ok. when I open the database and click
on the form, the old version shows up. How can I fix this? As you can
probably tell, I'm not that great with Access - the database was created by
someone that was.

Help!
 
Hi

I have made a very simple operation on one form in a DB with just your
problem. We have a field that is used to store the record of certain
incidences. This can be a few words or quite a lot. So a text box will not
work.

The way I did it - there are other methods - was to format the field as a
memo.
Then one my form I have a text box with the first few words. Click the txt
box and a popup form is shown (link the child and master with the main form).
The only things on the popup are the ID field (in a hidden text box - this
is needed to link the forms) and the memo field - plus a close button.

This way a user can see if there is anythng in the incedences field and, if
so, click it to get the full detailsand edit them if nes..

It's a very simple method and works fine.
 
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