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From: Joe <email@hidden>
To: Oakley Masten <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:31:00 PM
Subject: Re: Scripting FileMaker
>Is there a limit to the number of characters that the export from FileMaker 9 imposes on an xls cell.
>It happens both in the manual export and in the scripted export.
>
>The specs say that it limits the character count to 32,767 character per cell but I am only getting 255.
If you mean by "manual export," File->Save/Send Records as->Excel, then I don't see a problem here. I just tried it with ~10000 characters and it was fine. FMP 9.0v3, OSX 10.5.4, G5 Mac. (oh, and Office 2008)
You might try asking this question on one of the FileMaker lists. For example:
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