field names

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Miguel Vivar

Is there a way to increase the number of characters in the field name. I
understand that the limit is 64 characters, but I wonder if there is a way to
change that.

Thanks
 
R

Rick B

A response to this same question was just posted yesterday or the day
before. Do a search. It offered a workaround (really a bug), but it also
pointed out that if Microsoft fixes this bug in the future you would be in
trouble.

I can think of no reason a field name should ever be more than 20 characters
or so. Your users never see the field names, so they should not care. Your
LABEL in your forms can, of course, be much longer.
 
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Rick B

Miguel -

It was YOUR post that I am referring to. You posted it on 10/31 and it
sparked quite a bit of discussion.

Did you read those responses? Do you have an additional question for us, or
were you just hoping to get a different answer by posting again?
 
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Miguel Vivar

Dear Rick
I copuldn't read the messages for my question, Im new at this. However, I
use search but it did'nt work, is there specific steps to follow in order to
increase the number of characters?

Miguel
 
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Klatuu

I believe you have been told this is a really bad idea. Why do you presist?
You are only going to create problems for yourself. As Rick said, field
names never, ever, for any reason need to be that long. If you need
something the user can understand, use the Caption property of the field.
 
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