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    Looking for advice on Long Text/Memo fields

    That was pretty much what I'd come up with. The date and note fields are separate in the table. I just wanted to see if there was a way of indenting the notes as I think it makes it easier to scan the entries that way. Guess I'll stay with what I've got. Thanks all.
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    Looking for advice on Long Text/Memo fields

    Yes, that's what I'm after but there is no line break in the data. The value in the field is stored as "Note text ----------- more text" and depending on the width of the field will wrap at word boundaries as appropriate.
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    Looking for advice on Long Text/Memo fields

    Many thanks for the comments and suggestions. I've decided to revert to the unbounded memo field which I'm populating from the table in VBA. In the original post I indicated I was after: 10/08/2019 Note text ----------- more text 09/08/2019 Note text 08/08/2019 Note text Unfortunately the...
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    Looking for advice on Long Text/Memo fields

    Thanks for the input. jdraw - it needs to be a memo field as the content of an individual note could be quite long. The structure you suggest is what I have but with the NoteText as a memo. I think that a subreport is the best approach and that gives me what I want in form view but there are...
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    Looking for advice on Long Text/Memo fields

    In Access 2016 I have, as part of a bigger system, a customer table and a linked customer memo table whose purpose is to hold a chronological log of contact with the customer. Entering and storing the data is no problem. The area I need advice on is how to display it in a form. The individual...
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