Can you use the column setting "Allow unlimited length in document libraries"? This is available on the "Multiple Lines of Text" column type under the "Additional Column Settings" section.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nigel Witherdin Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013 10:35 AM To: OzMoss Subject: Word Custom Properties Character Limitation Hi All, We are using SharePoint 2010, and have a Document Set which has a large number of shared fields, some of which are multiple lines of text. Some of the allowed content types for the document set use Word document templates, which then use quick parts to display the metadata properties pushed down from the document set in the content of the document. We have experienced a problem lately where Word hangs attempting open documents on the splash screen showing "Processing..." A lot of digging around has shown (I think) that Word custom properties have a character limit of 255 char (similar complaints are here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/worddev/thread/fb885674-dc8c-4c0a-9202-374adbf11612/ and here: https://forum.solidworks.com/message/282519#282519). Testing of the documents that hang in our environment has proven this out - the problem docs all have fields with content > 255 chars, shrinking it down makes them open correctly. The users are going to pitch a blue fit if we try and limit them to 255 chars for these fields! Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and has any possible resolution/work around. My possible solutions are: - Whinge at MS (can't see any joy coming from this approach) - Use multiple fields limited to 255 chars (this would involve a lot of work re-doing the SharePoint forms, document templates, plus a nasty script to split the existing >255char content into the new fields) - Switch from using Word documents to web pages, display the field content much like a publishing page (I like this approach, but as it is going to require a bit of dev time to might be a hard sell) Any ideas? Cheers, Nigel
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