Microsoft KB Archive/39780

= Microsoft Knowledge Base =

File: Difference Between Text and Memo Fields
Last reviewed: October 27, 1994

Article ID: Q39780

Summary:

Microsoft File version 2.00 contains both Text and Memo fields. There are three main differences between the two types of fields:

- Text fields can contain up to 255 characters, whereas Memo fields

can contain as many as 32,768 characters. - Memo fields cannot be indexed.

- There can be as many as 253 Text fields. However, there can only be

a maximum of 59 Memo fields. Any of these limits can be lowered by other factors.