number of characters in text box

[rexhuston]

hi,
I am trying to paste some data in a textbox. Sometimes I
get an error saying that The amount of data is too large.
Is there a way to increase the amount of data a textbox
can hold?

Rex

 

[Jim/Chris]

Text boxes are limited to up to 255 characters or whats
been defined in the table design. Changing the field type
to memo will give you up to 64,000 characters. There are
some limitations to using memo fields. A good idea would
be to determine your needs and readup on the difference.

Jim

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Not quite, Jim.

A Table Text Field can have up to 255 characters

A Memo Field can have up to 2G of characters (but no one will be silly to do
this).

A TextBox Control can handle up to 64K characters. Thus if you use a
TextBox for data entry into a Memo Field, you are limited to 64K characters.

If you use code to enter data into the Memo Field, you can have up to 2G.