However, "a solution" is not always the right answer. Someone can be out of gas on the side of the road and call me for help. "A solution" is to tell that person to push their car. It works, but it's not the best solution.
The idea is not necessarily to provide "a solution", but to teach someone how to get to the solution. There's not a good reason to provide a solution if someone doesn't understand the problems in the first place. Usually, it would be pretty easy to provide a solution to most of the questions asked in here, but this is the "give a man a fish" versus "teach a man to fish" method of helping.
With the problem that has been posed in this particular thread, there is no good solution as you flat out cannot output more than 255 columns to Excel, unless you're in Excel 2007. Additionally, as myself, Bob, and others have pointed out, a single table with that many fields is just asking for major headaches down the road. You might be able to eke out a little more functionality, but eventually, the entire thing is going to become a maintainence nightmare and will have to be scrapped. In this case, the better suggestion is to step back and ask yourself, "Why do I have 440 fields in one table?"
Judging by the responses from the original person that started this thread, he's a little lost with normalization and he's just looking for a "quick fix". That's exactly what you don't want to do most of the time. If he doesn't understand the problem in the first place, the solution is meaningless, and you'll end up answering every question he has along the way. If he understands both the problem and the solution, chances are much greater that he will be able to answer his own questions and perhaps other people's questions in the future.
This is the Access Forum, not the Access 101 Classroom. This is where you post when you're almost over the hump, but need that little nudge in the right direction. When that nudge becomes a multi-person push (think of the car analogy), then it's fairly clear that the person asking the question needs to better educate himself on what the problem is in the first place.
With that said, I fully realize that sometimes, the people asking questions basically have a database dumped on them without warning, and they are left to swim for their lives. It's not a fun situation to be in, to be sure, but that person has a few options. One, they can flatout say to management, "I'm not sure if this project is in the scope of my current abilities" or something similar. Two, they can crash course themselves in Access. Three, they can fudge their way through it by asking people like us to basically write their code for them, not learn anything from it, and then be screwed down the line when management thinks they are capable of such tasks, when things break, when enhancements are needed, etc.
A simple look at the "Right Way To Ask Questions" post that is stickied at the top of the General section of this forum will show that what I am describing is accurate. A rather large percentage of the people fishing for answers here have never read that, but it essentially states, "You'd better exhaust every option you have before asking a question, and if you're still stuck, post a clear, concise example of what you need help with. Include design or code samples, explain error messages you get and where they happen, etc."
This rarely happens, but look how much the veterans of this place jump all over those posts with good responses when it does happen. This is also why many of the veterans of this place respond with, "Why ever do X that way?" or "Have you tried to accomplish X using Y?" or "Search for X for help on Y" instead of, "Here's your exact answer which probably won't make a lot of sense to you, but you won't ask about what it means if it works for you."
In short, a nudge in the right direction is often the better solution rather than just flat out handing the person a crib sheet. "Yeah, I got a A on that test, but I cheated and don't understand what I answered" is far worse than "I got a B- on that test, but I know what I messed up and with a little more studying, I'll do better next time around."