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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.
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Last reviewed: October 27, 1994
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