>>Sorry, I mis-named the field earlier. It is info. in the "Field Comment" field that shows when click-hold the mouse on a field name of a table as shown in the Database designer 'surface'.
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>>I have since found that the FORMAT/LENGTH comes and goes. Sometimes it is there for one table's fields and not for another, then it goes away again.
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>>It was handy (finished now) for checking the length I had already set for similar fields in other tables.
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>>I'm going to make a Wish List entry to have the Project Manager "Description" area at teh bottom expanded AND to have it show the FORMAT and LENGTH automatically when the highlight is a table field name.
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>>And of course I think it should at least be consistent in the Database Designer "surface" display.
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>Jim,
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>The FORMAT/LENGTH shows up in Tooltips after you've open table in the Table Designer.

Right, now you've got it! BUT it only shows sometimes, and sometimes only on some tables, and this is where the problem lies.

My current one has 8 tables defined and it shows on one of them but not on the other 7. Next time it may show on none or 2 or 3. I think it should show ALL THE TIME on EVERY FIELD of EVERY TABLE and pre-pended (as it does when it works) to the "Field comment" contents.

I've submitted a wish to have similarly displayed in the "Description:" area at the bottom of the Project Manager dialog box, of course also requesting that the display area be expanded beyond a single line.

I'm now going to do one to have the same as is done in the Database Designer also be done on any field hovered over in the PM Tables list when a table is 'expanded' to list the fields.