Maximum nr of merge fields

[George Thompson]

Hi All,

Does anyone know the maximum number of merge fields
allowed for a mail / merge?

Thanks,

George

 

[Doug Robbins]

The limit usually comes from the data source. For Excel and Access it's
255. For a Word table used as the datasource, I think it's 64.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Debbie]

Do you mean for actual number of merge fields in a
document or actual number of characters to merge into a
merge field? Doug is right if you are looking for just
characters from a "text" merge field from Access.

If you are looking for maximum possible number of
characters per merge field, in Access you can get up to
655 characters if you use a Memo field for your merge
field.

I send out merge letters with paragraphs of information
saved in Access.

 

[George Thompson]

Actually I am looking for the maximum number of merge
fields from a data source record. I know that Excel (and
perhaps Acess) limit to 255, but I am using a text file
with about 900 tab delimited fields (please don't ask why -
it's a Marketing department issue).

George

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi George,

Actually I am looking for the maximum number of merge
fields from a data source record. I know that Excel (and
perhaps Acess) limit to 255, but I am using a text file
with about 900 tab delimited fields (please don't ask why -
it's a Marketing department issue).

I think it's limited only by the resources the machine has to
handle the processing...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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