Word mailmerge character limit

[ChrisGG]

I have recently upgraded from word/Excel 97 to Wrod/Excel xp. After
creating a data file in Excel I merged into word with no problems.
After upgrading to xp, I can now only merge 255 characters.

The rest of my fields merge properly. Could anyone please help with
this very frustrating problem. Thank Chris

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi ChrisGG,

I have recently upgraded from word/Excel 97 to Wrod/Excel xp. After
creating a data file in Excel I merged into word with no problems.
After upgrading to xp, I can now only merge 255 characters.

See the discussion in this message thread

From: "dave munday" <[email protected]>
Subject: Excel _> Word
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 04:28:02 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

Note that I was not able to reproduce the problem. But if Word 97 was
working for you, look in the Word 2002 section of my website's mail
merge FAQ, on how to use older connection methods. Try using DDE,
instead of the new OLE DB default to connect to your Excel workbook.

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

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