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fry - 13 Feb 2004 09:20 GMT

hi ,

I have next year have some probleme with word XP on mailmerge with more than
255 field , word XP crashes and is very slow.
(I have referenced this bug to Microsoft)

i haven't problem with word 2000 and 97.

I would like to know if this problem will be solved in word 2003.

Thank's for help

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 13 Feb 2004 10:11 GMT

What are you using as the datasource? With Access and Excel, you will be
limited to that number of fields. With a comma delimited file, you should
be able to use more.

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fry - 13 Feb 2004 10:16 GMT

hi ,

thank's for help

I use a texte file with comma delimited but i have 3000 fields , in wird 97
the fusion take 3 second in word XP 4 minutes.

So is it more fast with word 2003 ?

thank's

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 13 Feb 2004 19:20 GMT

Hi Fry,

Your two message contradict one another a bit. Is Word crashing, or is it only
slow?

1. If you try to display the Recipients dialog box with more than 286 fields,
Word 2002 will crash. This is a known bug. Use the toolbar or the old mail
merge Helper interface to link to the data source.

2. By default, Word 2002 uses OLE DB to connect to the data, and OLE DB is
measurably slower than the connection methods used in earlier versions. This
has not changed in Word 2003.

For this, activate "Confirm conversions on open" in Tools/Options/General. Now
you'll get a choice of the connection method; I suggest Word's internal text
file converter.

> I use a texte file with comma delimited but i have 3000 fields , in wird 97
> the fusion take 3 second in word XP 4 minutes.
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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