Exported File truncating cell data after 255 characters

I have exported a file in Excel format from MS Access. When I open the file
in Excel, the cells containing greater than 255 characters have been
truncated. Any way around this?

Excel will not display any characters if you put more than 255 in a cell.
Instead you'll get only # signs. So..exporting more than 255 (or maybe even
254) in a field is not likely to help you.

How many characters in the fields you're trying to export?

If not too many more than the 255 limit - you could use a query to break it
into two columns - first one getting the LEFT([textfield],200) and the next
one getting the RIGHT([textfield],LEN([textfield]-200).

If you've got a few thousand characters in the field...then exporting to
Excel isn't going to be fun for you. You'll just have to break the field
into dozens of smaller chunks

"Sue Rizzo" wrote:

> I have exported a file in Excel format from MS Access. When I open the file
> in Excel, the cells containing greater than 255 characters have been
> truncated. Any way around this?

Thank you for your response. Yes, I have many cells with greater than 1,000
char. so splitting them into columns of 255 each would be quite burdensome.
It looks like I am stuck with the alternative of exporting to a Text File,
then copying the contents of the text file and pasting into Excel using Paste
Special as Text. I've used this method before but will now have to write a
little code to automate the Excel paste special task.

"Duke Carey" wrote:

> Excel will not display any characters if you put more than 255 in a cell.
> Instead you'll get only # signs. So..exporting more than 255 (or maybe even
> 254) in a field is not likely to help you.
>
> How many characters in the fields you're trying to export?
>
> If not too many more than the 255 limit - you could use a query to break it
> into two columns - first one getting the LEFT([textfield],200) and the next
> one getting the RIGHT([textfield],LEN([textfield]-200).
>
> If you've got a few thousand characters in the field...then exporting to
> Excel isn't going to be fun for you. You'll just have to break the field
> into dozens of smaller chunks
>
> "Sue Rizzo" wrote:
>
> > I have exported a file in Excel format from MS Access. When I open the file
> > in Excel, the cells containing greater than 255 characters have been
> > truncated. Any way around this?