>Does anybody know how to force a text field to become a memo? I have a long text string that gets me: String to long to fit.
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>Tried padding the string to 260 bytes to overflow a text field, but that didn't work.
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>Any ideas?
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>+++ Rick ---

If you're using MS SQL Server, have you tried the CONVERT() SQL function?
Something like, "SELECT CONVERT(Text, FieldA) ...".

I'm sure other SQL DBMSes have similar functions. HTH!