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Thanks, but this value has been set to 255 here all along. And indeed, when I create a new Short Text field, its field size is 255. My issue was/is that when I converted a Long Text field to Short Text, it apparently did not use this 255 characters default, trimming my ~100 characters entries to...

255. And you're right, I can manually change it now from 50 to 255, meaning I can restore my old entries. Thank you! I'm curious if there's a way to change the "conversion default" from 50 to a higher value to prevent losing data in the first place.

Here it is. Hm, I can see it says field size: 50. (But why? Can I influence this default(?) size?)

Hi, I'm using Access (Microsoft 365) for the first time today. I created a field of the type Long Text, then added some entries, and ultimately decided to change the field type to Short Text. My thought was, based on a quick Google search, that since Short Text is limited to 255 characters, and...