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Merge Field Truncated
How do I keep the merge fields from being truncated? So far, it only allows
six characters. I widened the Excel column, but it was already wide enough for all of the records' entries to be visible. Thanks, Shannon |
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I assume that it is in the document that you are merging to that they are
being truncated. Where do you have the mergefields? Are they inside the cells of a table with fixed cell dimensions? -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Shannon" wrote in message ... How do I keep the merge fields from being truncated? So far, it only allows six characters. I widened the Excel column, but it was already wide enough for all of the records' entries to be visible. Thanks, Shannon |
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The mergefields are in an Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know that the cell
dimentions are fixed. You can see the whole word in the spreadsheet. How can you tell if they are fixed and un-fix them? Shannon "Doug Robbins" wrote: I assume that it is in the document that you are merging to that they are being truncated. Where do you have the mergefields? Are they inside the cells of a table with fixed cell dimensions? -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Shannon" wrote in message ... How do I keep the merge fields from being truncated? So far, it only allows six characters. I widened the Excel column, but it was already wide enough for all of the records' entries to be visible. Thanks, Shannon |
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Where is that data truncated? In the Word document?
Where are the fields in the Word document? Are they inside the cells of a table IN THE WORD DOCUMENT? -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Shannon" wrote in message news The mergefields are in an Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know that the cell dimentions are fixed. You can see the whole word in the spreadsheet. How can you tell if they are fixed and un-fix them? Shannon "Doug Robbins" wrote: I assume that it is in the document that you are merging to that they are being truncated. Where do you have the mergefields? Are they inside the cells of a table with fixed cell dimensions? -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Shannon" wrote in message ... How do I keep the merge fields from being truncated? So far, it only allows six characters. I widened the Excel column, but it was already wide enough for all of the records' entries to be visible. Thanks, Shannon |
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Yes, the data is truncated in the Word document, but not in a table. They
are in a text box ... uh, okay, I'm really embarrassed. Now that it's morning and my head is on straight, I can see that two of the names in the data for these fields are really unusual and just appear to be truncated. Another name is actually misspelled, truncated by a typo. If you're interested, they were "Meier, Bragn, and Wilbor." They just happened to be the second, third and fourth entries which display one page at a time. The other entries are all very short names to begin with. For kicks, I entered "orville arnold knodle the third" as a first name and "icabod lip****z" as a last name. It displayed beautifully. Thank you for your help. Actually, your questions about tables knocked out a lot of other questions in my mind as to why this seemed wrong, so I started thinking in another direction--the data. Great job! Shannon "Doug Robbins" wrote: Where is that data truncated? In the Word document? Where are the fields in the Word document? Are they inside the cells of a table IN THE WORD DOCUMENT? -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Shannon" wrote in message news The mergefields are in an Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know that the cell dimentions are fixed. You can see the whole word in the spreadsheet. How can you tell if they are fixed and un-fix them? Shannon "Doug Robbins" wrote: I assume that it is in the document that you are merging to that they are being truncated. Where do you have the mergefields? Are they inside the cells of a table with fixed cell dimensions? -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Shannon" wrote in message ... How do I keep the merge fields from being truncated? So far, it only allows six characters. I widened the Excel column, but it was already wide enough for all of the records' entries to be visible. Thanks, Shannon |
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