Text fields (that is, fields that use a Text data type) have a default length of 50 characters, which is usually long enough. To conserve space or to limit the number of characters, however, you may want to change the field size. For example, for a field that contains state abbreviations, you may want to set the field size to 2 so that users can enter only two characters. For longer entries (such as a street address), you may want to increase the field size. |