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What is the character limit for options in a multi-select field?

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Jean-Yves_Noir
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Hey the community.
I face with a pb with multi-select field type. I use options to store sentences. Unless I’m mistaken, it seems that you have a limit with the length of an option: 255 characters. Do you agree? Is there any trick to solve this limit?
Thanks a lot.
JY

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Welcome to the community, Jean-Yves! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: You might consider using a link field pointing to items from another table instead of a multi-select. You can convert your existing multi-select to a link field, and Airtable will make entries in your new table for each item, but only if that item is actually chosen at least once in the existing multi-select field.

Thanks Justin. :pray: I’ll test your solution.