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Hello When viewing the workflow history for a review workflow, the description field is truncated if it is very long (it appear with ... at the end). Is there a way to see the value of the whole field? Someone already asked this question but the answer given is about using the SharePoint Object Model. I am looking for a solution for end-users. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointworkflow/thread/5af8d475-149b-45eb-b565-e47ccb71a03b

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