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lost text in merge
I'm losing text from the end of a field in my Word merge from my Excel file.
It seems to let me have about 48 or so words and then the rest is gone. |
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1. Have a look at http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0003.htm and for the moment you
probably need to use the "DDE" option. The limit is likely to be "255 characters" rather than a certain number of words. Peter Jamieson "Cat Nichols" Cat wrote in message ... I'm losing text from the end of a field in my Word merge from my Excel file. It seems to let me have about 48 or so words and then the rest is gone. |
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From information posted by a fellow contributor, Peter Jamieson, I
understand that Word looks at the first 8 or so records in the data source to determine the type of data in each field. If there is no field in any of those 8 or so records that contains more than 255 characters, that field in all subsequent records will be truncated at 255 characters. -- 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 "Cat Nichols" Cat wrote in message ... I'm losing text from the end of a field in my Word merge from my Excel file. It seems to let me have about 48 or so words and then the rest is gone. |
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It worked and saved me much time and effort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Peter Jamieson" wrote: 1. Have a look at http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0003.htm and for the moment you probably need to use the "DDE" option. The limit is likely to be "255 characters" rather than a certain number of words. Peter Jamieson "Cat Nichols" Cat wrote in message ... I'm losing text from the end of a field in my Word merge from my Excel file. It seems to let me have about 48 or so words and then the rest is gone. |
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