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Doug Robbins - Word MVP Doug Robbins - Word MVP is offline
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I believe that this is a limitation imposed by the method of connection to
the data source. In Word, click on the Pizza Button and then on Customize
in the bottom border of the dialog and then click on the Advance item and
scroll down to the General section and check the box against the "Confirm
file format conversion at open" item. Then when you connect to the data
source you will be presented with a dialog in which you can specifiy the
method of connection. Try the DDE option.

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"dBNovice" wrote in message
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I am using Word 2007 that I am trying to merge in more than 256 data
fields from an excel 2007 file. But it seems Word is only seeing the
1st 255 data fields in excel. Is there a way to get past this so I
only need 1 word document that can merge all of the excel fields.