Smartsheet is truncating text when I export to Excel

walker35803

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11/08/21 in Smartsheet Basics

I have a column with a large amount of text in it (about 500 characters). When I export it to Excel, it truncates the column to 255 characters. Why? And how can I get it to export all the data in the field?

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Brett Wyrick ✭✭✭✭✭

11/08/21

Is it a formula?
Excel has a limit of 255 characters for formulas.

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