I have an excel sheet with some cell contents of about 500 characters

When I merge this in to word the fields are truncated at 255 characters

I understand that this is a throw back to previous limits, but why does it
happen?

I have looked at cell format etc etc
I am not using tables etc just merge fields in a simple word document


I have read previous threads in this group and using Doug Robbins idea have
managed to make the merge work by saving the excel sheet as as a csv file and
merging that. This may work but its inconvienent

Anyone have any ideas?


Many thanks

Pete