Export to EXCEL truncates character field to 255?

Exporting a report to excel containing fairly long memo text, the text is truncated to apparently 255 characters.  Is this a hard limitation or are there settings that will allow more? 
InfoView 6.1.021.2263
WebIntelligence Reporter 6.1b
WebIntelligence Explorer 6.1b
WebIntelligence OLAP 6.1b
Excel (on desktop) 2003 SP3

Hi Susan,
This is a known issue in Infoview 6.1 and has been fixed in E6.5.1  Infoview.
Hope this helps you!
Regards,
Anindita

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