[Peter Jamieson]

This limit on character count depends on a number of things including the
type of connection you make, so you may be able to do what you need by
changing that.

However, if you want to get away from arbitrary limitations in the data
source, you could put your texts in a Word file, bookmark each one with a
different name (e.g. "text1", "text2" etc.), and put the bookmark name in
your data source instead, e.g. in a field called "Mytext". Then use a nested
field such as

{ INCLUDETEXT "c:\\mergedocs\\mytexts.doc" "{ MERGEFIELD mytext }" }

where all the {} are the sort of special field braces you can insert using
ctrl-F9.

You can do something similar using AUTOTEXTs.

Peter Jamieson

"borrodell" wrote in message
...
Conducting a mail merge in Word, but as well as
address/name/email/greeting,
i want one mergefield to be an entire paragraph - making it longer than
255
characters.

How can I make Word bring in a piece of merged data that is longer than
this?

Thank you for your help!
James