Edit Field Name in Data Source

[JoyceA]

Does anyone know how to edit the Data Source (not a
Contact List or Address Book, but our own data file) in
Word 2002. It was easy enough in Word 2000, but its
changed and we can't figure it out.

An example of what we want to do is delete an old field
(or column if you are thinking in terms of a table) and
replace it with something different. This is a data
source we created in Word and have always maintained in
Word.

On a related subject, has the number of fields allowed in
a data source changed with Word 2002? What is the upper
limit of fields and of records? Thank you.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

It looks as if you didn't see the reply by fellow MVP Cindy Meister:

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Hi JoyceA,

Does anyone know how to edit the Data Source (not a
Contact List or Address Book, but our own data file) in
Word 2002. It was easy enough in Word 2000, but its
changed and we can't figure it out.

An example of what we want to do is delete an old field
(or column if you are thinking in terms of a table) and
replace it with something different. This is a data
source we created in Word and have always maintained in
Word.

Was this source created in Word 2002 or in an earlier
version of Word?

You might want to look at the Word 2002 information on my
website that describes how to get back some of the old
functionality, if it's the latter.

On a related subject, has the number of fields allowed in
a data source changed with Word 2002? What is the upper
limit of fields and of records?

For a data source created in an earlier version it's still
63 fields (the max number of columns in a table).

For a data source set up in Word 2002 it should be 255
columns (although I've never tested this). Word 2002 creates
an Access database, and that's the max number of fields
allowed in an Access database.

Word's mail merge, itself, theoretically has no upper limit;
it's data-source dependent.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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