I'll have to look into the DDE bit,
the work we are doing is typing info into an excel spreadsheet, then merging
it over to Word, each line in a separate document, and then each document is
being downloaded onto our website.
Which with the amt of rows in each spreadsheet, it would be too difficult to
copy and paste all of them. I've also been told that the boss doesn't want
to seperate the information into 2 columns, which makes it even harder.
Thnaks very much
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
1. Is it stopping at 255 using DDE?
2. (I'm assuming that you have the space on the label to fit those 255
characters :-) )
3. Are you in a position to decide what mail merge data source you start
with? If you only have a small number of columns in Excel (less than around
64) you should be able to copy/paste your Excel data into a new Word
document and use that as the data source.
I'm not sure if this sort of thing will work, as we are merging sheet 1 &
2
seperately but with the intention of sorta doin the same thing.
Why does doing two merges make a difference?
--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"EmilyR" wrote in message
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thanks Peter,
I'm not sure if this sort of thing will work, as we are merging sheet 1 &
2
seperately but with the intention of sorta doin the same thing.
I've figured out that the cell information stops at 255 characters when
converted int Word. I somehow need to extend this amount if possible,
unfortunately theahrsh reality looks like I can't do that and will need to
split the cells. Only problems there is there is so much data in the
column
that this is a problem with, it doesn't seem viable.
Any ideas??
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
See http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0003.htm
You probably need to try the "DDE" method mentioned near the top.
--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"EmilyR" wrote in message
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I've had a problem with mail merging data from Excel into Word. It'll
take
over some of the data but can leave part of the information off. I
have
just
come to the conclusion that this is because it will only take 255
characters
from a particular Excel cell to Word.
Can anyone help in either extending the amount of characters or some
other
way to fix it??
Thanks in advance
Emily