No more than 255 columns?

[Monika Krug]

I am using an HTML file with 257 columns as a data source
for the mail merge, but only the columns 1 to 255 show up.
Is it impossible to have more than 255 columns / mail
merge fields or do I just need to change some settings or
import from a different type of data source?

Monika.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

255 is the limit for a lot of data sources (sometimes because the data
source itself does not support more, but sometimes becuse of a limitation in
the converter/odbc driver/oledb provider - e.g. i do not thinkyou can use
Access, or SQL Server to give you more columns). It certainly usd to be
possible to use plain text files with more than 255 columns as data sources,
but even if that still works you may need to be careful to connect using a
particular method, and you may find that large amounts of data cause
problems.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Monika Krug]

255 is the limit for a lot of data sources (sometimes because the data
source itself does not support more, but sometimes becuse of a limitation in
the converter/odbc driver/oledb provider - e.g. i do not thinkyou can use
Access, or SQL Server to give you more columns). It certainly usd to be
possible to use plain text files with more than 255 columns as data sources,
but even if that still works you may need to be careful to connect using a
particular method, and you may find that large amounts of data cause
problems.

Peter Jamieson

Thank you, with *.csv it works.

Monika.