Field Size limit of 255

[GT_engineer]

is there any way to increase the size of the text field beyond the 255 character limit?

I'm creating an incident report and its diffilcult to summarize an accident in less than 255 characters.

 

[Beetle]

Set the data type of the field to Memo.

 

[GT_engineer]

Thanks, totally forgot about that option

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Just be aware that a MEMO field cannot be an index and can sometimes be harder to manipulate because of its size. However, there you can get 65 Kbytes for a description. The good news is that MEMO fields are (relatively) efficient, taking up just about the same amount of overhead as a 250 byte TEXT field would require.