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What does "a field calcuation error occurred..." mean?
I am trying to merge data from an Excel spread sheet that I did not create. I
have tried everything I know (I am not an expert in Excel) to make sure the columns of information I need are in "Text" so the merging will be easier, but I still get the message "A field calculation error occurred in record x". I am not doing any calculations...the information still merges correctly, but this error message pops up for each field I merged! HELP! |
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A number of different things can result in this error. Do you have many
fields in your document? If you save your original document, then start removing the field codes one by one, do you reach a point where the merge suddenly works? If every record in your data source is causing the problem, you could also reduce the number of records to one or two to make testing easier and quicker. If the error is only occuring for /some/ records, maybe there is still a problem in the data, e.g. double-quote characters or other "unusual" characters in the data. Peter Jamieson "judyk" wrote in message ... I am trying to merge data from an Excel spread sheet that I did not create. I have tried everything I know (I am not an expert in Excel) to make sure the columns of information I need are in "Text" so the merging will be easier, but I still get the message "A field calculation error occurred in record x". I am not doing any calculations...the information still merges correctly, but this error message pops up for each field I merged! HELP! |
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Thanks for your suggestions, but (1) there are only 3 merge fields, and (2)
I've done the "one at a time" merge field and each one brings up that error message. The Excel spread sheet was originally produced by our Controller, so I had to take out all of the formulas she used and input the data as "Text" (according to the Help documents); as I mentioned, the merge works....I just get that error message for each of the three fields! So, again, thanks for trying, but still the same. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: A number of different things can result in this error. Do you have many fields in your document? If you save your original document, then start removing the field codes one by one, do you reach a point where the merge suddenly works? If every record in your data source is causing the problem, you could also reduce the number of records to one or two to make testing easier and quicker. If the error is only occuring for /some/ records, maybe there is still a problem in the data, e.g. double-quote characters or other "unusual" characters in the data. Peter Jamieson "judyk" wrote in message ... I am trying to merge data from an Excel spread sheet that I did not create. I have tried everything I know (I am not an expert in Excel) to make sure the columns of information I need are in "Text" so the merging will be easier, but I still get the message "A field calculation error occurred in record x". I am not doing any calculations...the information still merges correctly, but this error message pops up for each field I merged! HELP! |
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This is certainly not how it should be!
The other obvious things I would do a a. create a completely new document from scratch and see if I can connect to that data source and merge just one field without problems. You might also try creating a completely new normal.dot. b. create a completely new data source (in Excel, at first, but I might just create a "simpler" data source such as a comma-delimited text file) and test it with your existing Word document. If you find that (a) works, there is probably some form of corruption in the Word document and you should recreate it from scratch.If you find that (b) works, there is probably some form of corruption in the Excel workbook and you should recreate it from scratch. If neither works, there must be another problem. Peter Jamieson "judyk" wrote in message ... Thanks for your suggestions, but (1) there are only 3 merge fields, and (2) I've done the "one at a time" merge field and each one brings up that error message. The Excel spread sheet was originally produced by our Controller, so I had to take out all of the formulas she used and input the data as "Text" (according to the Help documents); as I mentioned, the merge works....I just get that error message for each of the three fields! So, again, thanks for trying, but still the same. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: A number of different things can result in this error. Do you have many fields in your document? If you save your original document, then start removing the field codes one by one, do you reach a point where the merge suddenly works? If every record in your data source is causing the problem, you could also reduce the number of records to one or two to make testing easier and quicker. If the error is only occuring for /some/ records, maybe there is still a problem in the data, e.g. double-quote characters or other "unusual" characters in the data. Peter Jamieson "judyk" wrote in message ... I am trying to merge data from an Excel spread sheet that I did not create. I have tried everything I know (I am not an expert in Excel) to make sure the columns of information I need are in "Text" so the merging will be easier, but I still get the message "A field calculation error occurred in record x". I am not doing any calculations...the information still merges correctly, but this error message pops up for each field I merged! HELP! |
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Hi ?B?anVkeWs=?=,
I am trying to merge data from an Excel spread sheet that I did not create. I have tried everything I know (I am not an expert in Excel) to make sure the columns of information I need are in "Text" so the merging will be easier, but I still get the message "A field calculation error occurred in record x". I am not doing any calculations...the information still merges correctly, but this error message pops up for each field I merged! Which version of Word is this, BTW? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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