Mail Merge problem with Access memo field

[Joanne]

I am doing a mail merge with a Access DB that has a memo
field. I am restricted to 255 characters in Word 2000. The
entire memo field will not show up on my mail merge. Any
suggestions?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Joanne,

I am doing a mail merge with a Access DB that has a memo
field. I am restricted to 255 characters in Word 2000. The
entire memo field will not show up on my mail merge.

This restriction was expanded to something like 32000 or
64000 characters in one of the Service Packs (I think it was
SP-1). So you need to download and install that.

Or, if I recall correctly, you can use an ODBC connection
instead of DDE to get around the limit.

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

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