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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / October 2007Word 2007 Field Sizes?
First, let me apologize for probably not having enough information. I am trying to help a colleague, but didn't think to ask for specifics. Here's the general problem -- while performing a mail merge using Word 2007 (I don't know the data source type but suspect it's either Excel or Access), she has found that Word seems to be cutting off some of the content that should be inserted in a field (and no, I don't know what type of field she's using either). The same procedure and data worked fine in Word 2003. Does anyone know if the new version of Word uses some sort of field size limitation that didn't exist before? Any thoughts as to how to fix this problem? Thanks very much for any help you can provide. I appreciate it! This was posted a while back by fellow MVP, Cindy Meister in response to what sounds like a similar issue: Quote Have you any idea which method you're using to connect the data in from Excel? DDE, ODBC, OLEDB or Word's internal spreadsheet converter? Traditionally, Word has never wanted to accept more than 255 characters from Excel. But I think it *ought* to work over an ODBC or perhaps OLEDB connection... IF the first record in the data coming across has > 255 characters in the field in question. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Unquote  SignatureHope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP > First, let me apologize for probably not having enough information. I am > trying to help a colleague, but didn't think to ask for specifics. Here's [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks very much for any help you can provide. I appreciate it!
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