Appreciate Opinions on LongText Fields

[CJ_London]

I use plaintext/richtext instead of conditional formatting on continuous forms where it is much faster.

Note you can apply richtext to form/report textbox controls, even if the controlsource is a short text field

Does mean that when viewed in the table the short text will look like as shown in Colin's post #23 - or you apply the formatting code in the form recordsource.