[Claudia in DC]

I have a Word document with 111 merge fields. The data is in Excel, and some
of the fields are long paragraphs. All are merging correctly, except for
just two fields, which cut off at 255 characters. I have Office 2007,
although this problem also happened when I had Office 2003. The data with
this issue is in the 74th and 97th columns of my Excel worksheet.

It seems strange to 100% be working except for just two fields. Any
advice/thoughts?

[Peter Jamieson]

My guess is that if you look at columns 74 and 79, the first 8 cells in
each of those columns will /all/ have 255 characters or fewer. Try
making just /one/ cell in the first 8 cells in each column have more
than 255 characters.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

On 15/01/2010 16:46, Claudia in DC wrote:
I have a Word document with 111 merge fields. The data is in Excel, and some
of the fields are long paragraphs. All are merging correctly, except for
just two fields, which cut off at 255 characters. I have Office 2007,
although this problem also happened when I had Office 2003. The data with
this issue is in the 74th and 97th columns of my Excel worksheet.

It seems strange to 100% be working except for just two fields. Any
advice/thoughts?