We tried it on an XP Pro/Office 2003 machine with 2GB of ram and 50GB of free
disk space, as well as a Vista/Office 2007 machine and it failed both times.
Slightly different error messages, but it still will not save the document
after the merge is complete. I think that they are unable to edit the
document as well without getting an error. Not sure if the autosave feature
is failing in the background too or has anything to do with that issue. Its
just a mail merge importing user information for like 550 users into a form.
e.
"finalword" wrote:
There are no limits to the data. Turning off spellcheck and pictures
shouldn't really help that much. Though you could be running into a system
resource problem.
"E-Double" wrote:
Thanks for the replies guys. We are importing fields from an Excel
spreadsheet. Also, does disabling Spellcheck and viewing of picture objects
during the mail merge enhance performance (ie reduce errors like this) ?
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"Cindy M." wrote:
Hi ?B?RS1Eb3VibGU=?=,
Are there any practical record or page limits for MS Word Mail Merge? For
some reason whenever we try to use the Mail Merge on forms with more than 500
records/pages we get 'out of memory' errors on Word 2003 or 'the file is too
large' errors on Word 2007 - even on high-end machines with 4GB of ram.
Officially, no, no limits.
You might want to ask this in the more specialized word.mailmerge.fields
newsgroup. Be sure to mention what kind of data source is involved.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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