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I am using a bunch of form fields to interface with our paperless
documentation system (PDMLINK WindChill). I have some fields that I am trying to import that are 500 to 1000 characters. Only the first 250 or so characters get copied in. Does anyone know a way around this? |
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:52:27 -0800, "Scott from KNC"
wrote: I am using a bunch of form fields to interface with our paperless documentation system (PDMLINK WindChill). I have some fields that I am trying to import that are 500 to 1000 characters. Only the first 250 or so characters get copied in. Does anyone know a way around this? It isn't clear from your post what mechanism you're using to get the information from WindChill to Word. If it's a VBA macro, this article may help: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...mFldResult.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I am using the Docroperty field code.
{DOCPROPERTY "IBA|2WhyXYZ"\*MERGEFORMAT} No macros - no form fields -- just field codes "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:52:27 -0800, "Scott from KNC" wrote: I am using a bunch of form fields to interface with our paperless documentation system (PDMLINK WindChill). I have some fields that I am trying to import that are 500 to 1000 characters. Only the first 250 or so characters get copied in. Does anyone know a way around this? It isn't clear from your post what mechanism you're using to get the information from WindChill to Word. If it's a VBA macro, this article may help: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...mFldResult.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Your original post said "form fields", which was misleading.
DocProperty fields (or, rather, the underlying document properties) are a completely different story -- they are limited to 255 characters. I know of no way around this limit. However, if you can use document _variables_ and DocVariable fields instead, they are unlimited. This may not be possible, because document variables can be accessed only via macros or OLE automation. I don't know what's possible from within WindChill. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:09:31 -0800, "Scott from KNC" wrote: I am using the Docroperty field code. {DOCPROPERTY "IBA|2WhyXYZ"\*MERGEFORMAT} No macros - no form fields -- just field codes "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:52:27 -0800, "Scott from KNC" wrote: I am using a bunch of form fields to interface with our paperless documentation system (PDMLINK WindChill). I have some fields that I am trying to import that are 500 to 1000 characters. Only the first 250 or so characters get copied in. Does anyone know a way around this? It isn't clear from your post what mechanism you're using to get the information from WindChill to Word. If it's a VBA macro, this article may help: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...mFldResult.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thanks Jay -- I am just going to limit the user to 1020 characters and then
split it into 4 parts and copy it into word as 4 fields. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Your original post said "form fields", which was misleading. DocProperty fields (or, rather, the underlying document properties) are a completely different story -- they are limited to 255 characters. I know of no way around this limit. However, if you can use document _variables_ and DocVariable fields instead, they are unlimited. This may not be possible, because document variables can be accessed only via macros or OLE automation. I don't know what's possible from within WindChill. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:09:31 -0800, "Scott from KNC" wrote: I am using the Docroperty field code. {DOCPROPERTY "IBA|2WhyXYZ"\*MERGEFORMAT} No macros - no form fields -- just field codes "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:52:27 -0800, "Scott from KNC" wrote: I am using a bunch of form fields to interface with our paperless documentation system (PDMLINK WindChill). I have some fields that I am trying to import that are 500 to 1000 characters. Only the first 250 or so characters get copied in. Does anyone know a way around this? It isn't clear from your post what mechanism you're using to get the information from WindChill to Word. If it's a VBA macro, this article may help: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...mFldResult.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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