# Long long text \[Feb 08\]

**URL:** <https://community.nocodb.com/t/long-long-text-feb-08/233>\
**Category:** Discord-Discussions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 8:06am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/long-long-text-feb-08/233 "2022-11-03T08:06:48Z")\
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> 🙋‍♂️ **Erkin Tek** _asked_

## Hi,

#### I’m new to nocodb, just added some data to a table, one column is “long text” and it occupies 5 pages, i may hide it but can i made smaller like " long long tex… "?

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> 💁 **o1lab** _replied_

#### Did you mean changing the type? If so you can click on more options. And you should be able to change to exact data type

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> 🙋‍♂️ **Erkin Tek** _replied_

#### no, I want data to be long and there, but in the grid view a little shorter

 ![image0](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/nocodb/original/1X/a2ccd325887811625e012331d3c1bdd9e32e61b7.png)

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> 💁 **o1lab** _replied_

#### Got it

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> 🙋‍♂️ **moosefist** _replied_

#### Is there a way to only show the first couple lines, and hit a button to expand?

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> 💁 **o1lab** _replied_

#### Happy to take a PR

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