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I'm creating a glossary, merging from Excel into Word 2002. The merge itself
is fine, but cuts off the definition if it's too long - the final merged document will only give me about 4 1/2 lines total. Example: Accident and health plan: An employer-provided plan giving employee fringe benefits through the payment of health and accident insurance premiums or employer funded medical reimbursement. Payments under such plans are generally deductible by the employer and not includable in inco I've never run into this problem before, and can't figure out where to increase the number of characters that the merge will allow?? |
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Directory - Can a field be limited by size or number of characters
Try the different connection methods to the data source that will become
available if you check the "Confirm conversions at open" box under ToolsOptionsGeneral in versions of Word before 2007 or "Confirm File Format Conversion at open" under the General section of the Advanced Word Options dialog (StartWord OptionsAdvanced). However, you will need to make sure that your data is organised so that in the first records, you have a field that has more than 255 characters as Word make a determination of what type of data is being merged based on the content of the first couple of records in the data source. An alternative maybe to create a number of files to contain the information and use an { INCLUDETEXT } field to bring the information into the document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Jill Hoven" Jill wrote in message ... I'm creating a glossary, merging from Excel into Word 2002. The merge itself is fine, but cuts off the definition if it's too long - the final merged document will only give me about 4 1/2 lines total. Example: Accident and health plan: An employer-provided plan giving employee fringe benefits through the payment of health and accident insurance premiums or employer funded medical reimbursement. Payments under such plans are generally deductible by the employer and not includable in inco I've never run into this problem before, and can't figure out where to increase the number of characters that the merge will allow?? |
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