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Default Remove character limit in mail merge fields.

That totally worked! Thanks so much for the help!

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the item "Confirm conversions at open". Then,
when you attach the data source, select DDE as the method by which the
connection should be made.

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Hope this helps.

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"bhodge" wrote in message
news
I have an excel 2003 spreadsheet with a column that has a bunch of text. I
am
trying to create a bunch of tables in word, since powerpoint can not do
mail
merge, from the excel spreadsheet. Whenever the text length in the column
exceeds 255 characters, it stops processing the mail merge and moves to
the
next row in the table. I have seen on microsofts site that it is limited
to
255 characters. i was looking for a way to get around that. sorry for the
grumpy post, I thought I was writing microsoft a nasty gram and not a
post.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?YmhvZGdl?=,

There should be no character limit with merge field data. There is no
reason
why it should be limited.

What limit are you running into? As far as I know, there was no limit
until the
first release of Word 2000. And from Service pack 1 on, that limit was
increased to some 32,000+ characters. Hard to imagine text coming into a
mail
merge that's over this limit?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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