[RBG7-L] - Re: Note fields

[Marc]

Bob   Would this work. In your lookup table make the field varchar, then they could format the headings the way they want?   Couldn't they make ^^^Past History^^^ some big font then the text below would be the default font.     Just thinking. I know I shouldn't do that Marc   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RBG7-L Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:44 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Note fields Yikes! ..."Blob".... That is another variable I need to consider. I was going to use Marc's suggestion and use one RTF file but the users want a really tight formatted report with shaded headings and other visual goodies so i am sort of at a loss at this time. Just FYI to all, i did talk with RBTI about this and at least I am convinced that for this type of application v8 turbo is probably going to be necessary for all this data. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: rbg7-l@rbase.com 05/04/2005 07:11 PM Please respond to rbg7-l@rbase.com To rbg7-l@rbase.com (RBG7-L Mailing List) cc Subject [RBG7-L] - Re: Note fields One difference I noticed between having a varchar and a note column in a table is that if you will be exporting the data (say to an Excel file), you will just get the word [BLOB] for a varchar field, whereas you would get the full note.  I searched to see whether there's a setting or option to download varchars any other way but I couldn't find it.    So if you need to export a field, then you need to stick with a note field. Karen I am going to switch to a varchar in 7.1 so I can have more than 4k for the notes.