What are you using as the data source - With 2003, a data source in a Word
document is limited to about 64 fields, a data source in Excel or Access can
have about 255 fields.

Are you sure that the message is not that the maximum number of fields has
been exceeded rather than "exceeds maximum width"

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"clairemth04" wrote in message
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I'm trying to add a field to a data source for a mail merge in Word 2003
and
keep getting this error message that says "exceeds maximum width." What's
going on here?