Microsoft KB Archive/45940

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Last reviewed: October 31, 1994

Article ID: Q45940

SUMMARY
There is a limit of 10 characters in a field name. If a field name is longer than 10 characters, all of the characters beyond the tenth are truncated.

For example, if you create a dBASE III file in Excel and name one of the fields in the database &quot;commissions,&quot; the final &quot;s&quot; is truncated when you save the file in Excel and open it in Q+E. The field name appears as &quot;commission&quot;.

This is a limitation of the dBASE file format.
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