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How do I work around the 255 character truncation of text fields in excel. I
am exporting from access to excel and loosing text.
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On Aug 18, 4:18 pm, liddleti
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How do I work around the 255 character truncation of text fields in excel. I
am exporting from access to excel and loosing text.


Try formatting the cells as General. Versions as old as Excel 2000 can
have far more characters than this in a cell, but you may need to
change out of Text format, I forget exactly how this works.

Excel 2007 is unlimited or something like that, if upgrading is an
option.
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