I am trying to add a text field to my attribute table in ArcMap, but every time I do it adds a string type field instead.I've tried turning off the Allow Null Values and shortening the Length, but no matter what it makes it string instead of text field. If I can't make it a text field, how do I fill in the records for a string field? The table is attached to a polygon layer, I'm trying to add in short character codes to ID each polygon.
Why is it doing this and how do I get around it?