I have spoken with our IT person about changing
the registry. He did not recommend it

Fair enough. I doubt we'll ever discover why the machines are different.

I'm having another look at this as I got halfway through some experiments
last year, but it is certainly the case that mixing text and numeric values
in a column can result in different behaviour depending on what is in the
mix and what settings are in force. It may take some time...

Meanwhile, can you check some things at your end. My current tests suggest
that you probably have some cells in the "truncated" column that just
contain numbers or perhaps date/times. if so, can you make a copy of your
sheet and change the cells (perhaps using Edit|Replcae) that have non-text
values into text values, and see if your longer texts then magically
reappear in the merge?

Peter Jamieson
"BAW" wrote in message
...
We are using Word 2003.. and I have spoken with our IT person about
changing
the registry. He did not recommend it and said that none of the other
machines should have been altered.. Back to square one!! I do have a
work
around by just splitting the cell, but would rather not if there is a
fix....

"BAW" wrote:

I have a word merge that pull data from an excel source into a table.
One of
the cells in excel has data over 255 characters long. All of the data
does
show up within excel, but when I perform the merge, the data is trucated
at
255 characters within the word table. I have previously performed the
same
merge with the same data (on another computer) and all of the data (over
255
characters) was transferred into the merge. Is there ANYTHING I can do
to
ensure that all the data is transferred? I have previously posted a
similar
message, but at the time, thought the data was under 255 characters. The
suggestion was to try using DDE- which didn't work, but when I got it to
work
on another co-workers computer, I didn't pursue it further. Now as I am
trying to re run the querry, it won't work on any of the computers in the
office, so I am back to square one. By the way, the data is truncated in
the
"select recipients" window... Thanks, in advance, for your help!