Increasing characters in text boxes

[bentley7]

I'm quite new to using forms in Access, and can not seem to figure out how to increase the number of characters in my text box to greater than 50 characters.

The box is expanded enough, so I know that is not the problem.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[KeithG]

You need to set this value in the table inwhich the field resides.

 

[rainman89]

try setting it to the memo datatype

 

[KeithG]

I wouldn't recommend changing to the memo data type unless your string will be longer the 255 characres.

 

[boblarson]

try setting it to the memo datatype

I wouldn't do Memo type unless it was necessary to have more than 255 characters. Keith's advice is correct - The field size property for the field, in the TABLE itself, needs to be changed from 50 (the default for new text fields) to something that works for them.

 

[rainman89]

good to know!