I used to have a lot of formatted memos with very small contents and 
filed size of 1.  Never had problems.
I converted most to memos cause no one used the formatting anyway.

Not sure about network traffic.  If it's longer than 255 anyway I'm not 
sure it's going to change much except for "complete display" on form fields.

Long term, you can easily convert the formatted part to html or .doc or 
something else.  There's code floating around that does that.

On 4/23/2019 1:55 PM, Steven Green wrote:
> formatted memo fields.. opinions, please, aside from "don't use them" :-)
> 
> in this instance, they're usually 1k to 2k in size, and the guy who 
> designed the tables made them all F240.. 99% of the use is for reports, 
> so if I change them from F to M, I have to format the text in a 
> gazillion reports, instead of just letting it pass itself thru from the 
> tables.. not today
> 
> do you think the table structure will be more solid if I change the 
> table part to F1, F10, etc.. something small.. the full content is way 
> more than the 255 alpha field limit, most of the time, so I'm thinking 
> it's just gonna make MORE I/O traffic.. but it's always gonna open the 
> table and the memo, either way
> 
> this is all just theory, of course
> 
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