Charactor Limits on Mail Merge from Excel

[Chuck Keller]

Does anyone know what the maximum charactor limits to a field from a mail
merge is in Word. I have several fields I am bring into Word from Excel 03
and they exceed 2000 charactors. If so is their a work around to this
charactor limit?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

From information posted by a fellow contributor, I understand that Word
looks at the first 8 or so records in the data source to determine the time
of data. 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.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP