Limiting the Amount of Text Displayed in a List View

Limiting the Amount of Text Displayed in a List View

 Hi.  I have a table displayed in a list view which has a couple of multiline fields.  Because these can be up to 65k characters, they can grow quite large and make a compact display impossible:

Is there any way, for display purposes only, that I can limit the amount of text, while not disrupting the actual underlying data?

Thanks very much!

matt