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Topic: Cell only has 255 characters
Posted By: jimidy
Subject: Cell only has 255 characters
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 2:43pm

Is there a way of having more than 255 characters in a cell for access?

 

Thanks in advance..

Jimidy.. 



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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 2:49pm
Yes, use the 'memo' field...


Posted By: jimidy
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 4:26pm

Sweeeet!   How many does that allow mate?

Thanks 



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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 6:38pm
65536 bytes, if you are filling it using the user interface; an entire
.mdb file, 2 GByte less overhead, if you fill it programmatically from
VB code

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