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Brenda Lichius - 04 Mar 2008 16:32 GMT

I have a data source that is 14,000 records. Whenever I try to merge it with
my main document, Word is crashing. Is it reasonable to be able to merge this
many records in Word 2003? Or do we have to split the data source into parts?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 10 Mar 2008 12:40 GMT

I would try splitting it. There have been reports of problems with more
that several thousand records. Another thing that you should do is uncheck
the Background printing option under Tools>Options>Print.

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>I have a data source that is 14,000 records. Whenever I try to merge it
>with
> my main document, Word is crashing. Is it reasonable to be able to merge
> this
> many records in Word 2003? Or do we have to split the data source into
> parts?

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