title: Microsoft Access 2013 Long Text limiting to 255
body: <p>I have a database that has a field of type long text. It only allows 255 characters and if I add more then it truncates. Tried creating a new table and importing and same issue. Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Divqw.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Divqw.png" alt="Field Type"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pjdVv.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pjdVv.png" alt="Character Count"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5JgA7.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5JgA7.png" alt="Showing the 255 text max and cant add more"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CNjVP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CNjVP.png" alt="Data Types Available"></a></p>