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Memo field in access linked to Excel field problem

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vtisgreat

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May 3, 2001
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I have Excel 97 and have a long description (up to 1000 or more characters). I have linked Excel to access, and the field gets picked up as a text field... not a memo. Therefore I get only 512 chars. Any fix for this?
 
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