Hi Tim,
This is a text that was posted on UT a while back, I got it from a coleague and I don't know the source:

> I was getting an error in the report writer. 'String too long to fit' on
> a memo field which was about 400 characters long. Strange. I even had
> another memo field which was longer and did not generate the error.
> Quickly looking to see what the difference between the two was, I found
> that one had the @T format to left justify it, the one that worked did
> not. So I removed the formatting since it left justifies anyway, and it
> worked. So I checked the knowledge base and found a similar error was
> generated when trying to use the upper case formatting in the report
> writer. Seems the report writer has problems formatting strings longer
> than 254 characters, a problem obviously carried forward when they ported
> the report writer from 2.6, instead of redesigning it. Just wanted to
> warn everyone to beware this problem.
>
> Oh, and the knowledge base says this behavior is by design. In the case
> of wanting to upper case the memo string, use UPPER() in the field box,
> and not the upper case format option.

One KB article I found is Q156642...

HTH,
dz