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Form Question - Number of characters 1

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JohnnyD

JohnnyD

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Jan 7, 2001
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I have built a form in which our personnel will enter various issues. I inserted a text box for them to type the issue but the issue can only be 255 characters long. Can I lengthen this? How?

 
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Change the underlying Control Source field data type to "memo".


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Thanks a lot. That worked with ease. Thanks for helping us "beginners" out.
 
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