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MeaganMcOlin's avatar
MeaganMcOlin
Qrew Cadet
4 years ago

How to shorten the display of a text field?

I have a comments field that is long enough to really mess up the table view, so I want it to only display the first 20 words unless you click into it. How can I do that? I tried to do use this ...
Formulas and functions
Tables and fields
MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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4 years ago
You would need to have a separate abbreviated field to use on reports.  if you want to get fancier there is syntax to have a 'more' link appear to allow drilling into the record to see the full record.  There is also syntax possible to allow hover text to see the full note

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